Grades on theCrag

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While the general information about climbing grades and grade conversion is described in the article Grades and Grade Conversions. Amongst many other things, this article describes

• how theCrag is using and displaying grades,
• how theCrag assigns grades to routes and ascents,
• what protection ratings are and how they are applied on theCrag,
• what grade contexts are, and
• which grade systems are used per country.

Grade displayBack to contents

Grade bandsBack to contents

theCrag has segmented climb difficulty into 5 broad categories - Beginner, Intermediate, Experienced, Expert and Elite. These definitions are somewhat arbitrary, but they allow for a quick overview and have some statistical basis that was developed over the years.

There are two common area difficulty graphs used throughout theCrag, the grade band and the condensed grade band.

The grade band chart shows the relative number of routes at the particular difficulty bands. This is shown at each area and gives you a quick summary of the area's relative difficulty.

The condensed grade band shows similar information in a condensed way when looking at multiple areas in e.g. list view

Example of condensed grade band chart

The table below gives a brief description of each band.

Beginner	The level of difficulty for your first couple of days of climbing (seconding or top roping). Many people may achieve these grades on their first day of climbing. There are still some very scary and/or dangerous climbs at this level (eg Bard).
Intermediate	Typical grades for people with less than a years climbing. Note that most people cannot climb this level on their first couple of days of climbing. Statistically speaking, most outdoor climbing is done in this band. A lot of experienced climbers end up backing off to this level as they enjoy their climbing into old age.
Experienced	People can achieve these levels if they have been climbing fairly regularly for a couple of years. These grades are where the social climbers start becoming rare.
Expert	You really need to be training in a focused way to climb at this level. Not so many people reach this level.
Elite	You climb for a living, are sponsored and have a full time trainer and masseur looking after you. This is the best of the best. If you are normal, you would not have a hope of even dogging up one of these climbs.

Universal grade conversionBack to contents

In general, theCrag displays grades as they are entered and in the area specific context. Meaning that for example if you look at a crag in Australia you will most likely see sport and trad climbing grades displayed in Ewbanks and bouldering grades in V-scale. If you look at a crag in France, you will most likely see sport and trad climbing grades displayed in French scale and bouldering grades in Fontainebleau scale.

However, If you are a registered user you can set your preferred grade system for major gear styles on your profile page, allowing you to look at any climbing area worldwide (and many other grade related information) in the grade system you are most used to. In some places, the converted grade and the original grade are displayed next to each other for your convenience.

How are grades assigned to routes?Back to contents

Routes have an assigned grade and a list of independent user and publisher grade contributions. The user and publisher grade contributions are displayed on the route page. The official grade of the route according to theCrag is given by the assigned grade.

Please consider the assigned grade as the grade that has been accepted by the community. This may change over time.

Assigned gradeBack to contents

The assigned grade is the official grade of the route, and is used throughout theCrag website and publications.

An assigned grade may have multiple components, for example:

• A free climbing grade (5.12a) and an aid grade (A3), combined would read 5.12a A3.
• British technical (4a) and adjectival (MS), combined would read MS 4a.

A route may have official grades from several different grading systems (e.g. in Thailand many routes have an official French and Australian grade). For example:

The above route, 'Knights In White Satin' has an assigned grade of 7b+ French and 26 Australian Ewbanks. Because Thailand is assigned the French context the French grade will be shown on the site.

Once a route has an assigned grade it can only be changed by an Editor and is not affected by subsequent user contributions.

Grade contributionsBack to contents

Any registered user may make a grade contribution. A route may have several grade contributions from users and publishers.

When you add a new route, the grade you enter becomes your grade contribution. For new routes your grade contribution also becomes the assigned grade.

You may add your user grade contribution to an existing route using the edit route function. If the route already has an assigned grade then this will not affect the assigned grade (unless your contribution is the first one and thus becomes the assigned grade).

Grade rangesBack to contents

Behind the scenes everything is a grade range with a minimum grade and maximum grade. Mostly people will use just one grade, but on occasions it is useful to use a grade range for a particular route (e.g. you may input 5.10a-b, which will be interpreted by the system as a grade range and displayed as 5.10a to 5.10b).

Grade ranges may be useful for e.g. new routes where the assigned grade is not yet clear and are also necessary for grade conversions. Few grade systems match exactly, there is usually overlap. For example 5.8 in the Yosemite Decimal System maps to both 15 and 16 in the Australian Ewbanks system or UIAA 11 maps to both, 8c+ and 9a in the French System.

Aid eliminatesBack to contents

A route may originally be a 5.10b A4, then later somebody may climb it as a 5.11a A0, then later as a 5.12c. In this scenario the route should have the cleanest grade as its assigned grade, but may have all the other grades listed as grade contributions.

Special rating systemsBack to contents

Although not part of the assigned grade you can include some additional rating systems in your grade contributions. These include:

Protection ratingBack to contents

You may use the YDS Protection Rating in your grade contribution or assigned grade. For example 5.10d X. Letters for Protection Ratings are borrowed from the American system for rating the content of movies. Whereas G (Good), PG (Pretty Good) and PG13 (Pretty Good 13) might be used, they are typically omitted. R (Run-out) and X (eXtreme) are more commonly used and warn the lead climber of dangerous or lacking protection. Be aware that ratings vary widely from area to area and are very subjective. On some pages the system does not display the mild ratings to avoid clutter.

Example:

• US Sport 5.10d X Grade with Protection Rating (eXtreme) and
• AU Trad 21 R Grade with Protection Rating (Run-out).

StarsBack to contents

If you add a *, ** or *** to the end of your grade contribution the system will recognise this a star rating. See Stars and route quality.

How are grades assigned to ascents?Back to contents

Currently when you log an ascent the ascent will automatically take up to two of route's assigned grade components as the ascent grade. If there are two grade components (e.g. British Adjectival and Technical or Free and Aid) then both will be catered for. If there are more than two (e.g. Free, Aid and Protection), then one will be dropped.

A logged ascent has a primary grade and secondary grade independent of the route's grade. This means you may update your ascent to any grade you want, such as a different grading system or different grade to the route.

The minimum level of difficulty of the ascent grade and the route grade is used for Climber Performance Rating (CPR).

Grade contextsBack to contents

Our aim is for you to contribute grades as you see them in guidebooks and for the platform to be smart enough to work out what you mean.

Grade context meaningBack to contents

What does it mean if you type in the grade '5c'? If you were in Britain you would think it was the Experienced British grade 5c, but if you were in France you would think it was the Intermediate French grade 5c. If it was a bouldering route in Fontainebleau then you would think it is the Experienced Fontainebleau bouldering grade 5C. Interpretation of grades is dependent on where you are and the style of route, this is what we term grade context.

A Grade context is a way of the platform working out how to interpret potentially conflicting grades written in plain text, and we set a grade context typically at the country level.

A grade context is simply a priority list of which grade systems it should check first when matching a grade. For instance in Australia, you can use a French grade, but it will check it first against the locally used Ewbank, and V-Grade bouldering grade systems first, and then if it doesn't match it will check against all the other grade systems. The platform defines as few contexts as possible in order to eliminate conflicts. In general most countries can use the default context.

You may set the default context for any area which overrides the inherited area above. You may also set the context on a route.

Currently the system defines the following contexts:

Code	Grade context	Countries and Grade Systems
ALSK	Alaskian	Countries: General grade systems: Alaska
AU	Australian (Ewbanks ...) Australian rating systems including Ewbanks and aid systems.	Countries: Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Tonga General grade systems: Ewbanks, V-Scale, Aid, Protection Rating Additional ice systems: Mixed Rock/Ice Additional via ferrata systems: Ferrata Schall, Ferrata Num, Ferrata French Additional deep water solo systems: DWS Safe
BRZ	Brazillian Brazillian	Countries: Brazil General grade systems: Brazil Technical, Brazil General, Distance, Exposure Additional ice systems: Mixed Rock/Ice Additional boulder systems: Fontainebleau Additional via ferrata systems: Ferrata Schall, Ferrata Num, Ferrata French Additional deep water solo systems: DWS Safe
FB	Fontainebleau Fontainebleau bouldering system used in european bouldering - same labels as French grading system, but different difficulty levels.	Countries: General grade systems: Fontainebleau Additional ice systems: Mixed Rock/Ice Additional via ferrata systems: Ferrata Schall, Ferrata Num, Ferrata French Additional deep water solo systems: DWS Safe Additional traverse systems: Font Traverse
FIN	Finnish Finnish	Countries: Finland General grade systems: Finnish Additional ice systems: Mixed Rock/Ice Additional boulder systems: Fontainebleau Additional via ferrata systems: Ferrata Schall, Ferrata Num, Ferrata French Additional deep water solo systems: DWS Safe
FR	French French rating systems including free, bouldering, aid and alpine systems.	Countries: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cuba, Egypt, Estonia, France, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Malta, Moldova, Morocco, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam General grade systems: French, Annot B-Scale, V-Scale, IFAS, Aid, Aid, Ferrata Schall, Committment Level, Protection Level (trad), Protection Level (sport) Additional ice systems: Mixed Rock/Ice Additional boulder systems: Fontainebleau, Annot B-Scale Additional via ferrata systems: Ferrata Schall, Ferrata Num, Ferrata French Additional deep water solo systems: DWS Safe Additional alpine systems: Russian Additional traverse systems: Font Traverse
HK	Hong Kong Hong Kong	Countries: Hong Kong General grade systems: French, V-Scale, Aid, Aid Additional ice systems: Mixed Rock/Ice Additional via ferrata systems: Ferrata Schall, Ferrata Num, Ferrata French Additional trad systems: British Adj., British Tech. Additional deep water solo systems: DWS Safe
NWG	Norwegian Norwegian	Countries: Norway General grade systems: Norwegian Additional ice systems: Mixed Rock/Ice Additional boulder systems: Fontainebleau Additional via ferrata systems: Ferrata Schall, Ferrata Num, Ferrata French Additional deep water solo systems: DWS Safe
POL	Polish Polish	Countries: Poland General grade systems: Polish Additional ice systems: Mixed Rock/Ice Additional via ferrata systems: Ferrata Schall, Ferrata Num, Ferrata French Additional boulder systems: Fontainebleau Additional deep water solo systems: DWS Safe
SA	South African South African	Countries: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Uganda General grade systems: South African, Old South African, V-Scale, Aid, Aid Additional ice systems: Mixed Rock/Ice Additional via ferrata systems: Ferrata Schall, Ferrata Num, Ferrata French Additional boulder systems: Fontainebleau Additional aid systems: Aid, Aid Additional deep water solo systems: DWS Safe
SWE	Swedish Swedish	Countries: Sweden General grade systems: Swedish Additional ice systems: Mixed Rock/Ice Additional via ferrata systems: Ferrata Schall, Ferrata Num, Ferrata French Additional boulder systems: Fontainebleau Additional deep water solo systems: DWS Safe
SX	Saxon Saxon free rating systems.	Countries: General grade systems: Saxon, Jumps Additional ice systems: Mixed Rock/Ice Additional boulder systems: Fontainebleau Additional via ferrata systems: Ferrata Schall, Ferrata Num, Ferrata French Additional deep water solo systems: DWS Safe
UIAA	UIAA UIAA free rating system but also includes bouldering and aid systems.	Countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Montenegro, Slovakia General grade systems: UIAA, V-Scale, Aid, Aid, Ferrata Schall, Protection Level (trad), Protection Level (sport) Additional ice systems: Mixed Rock/Ice Additional boulder systems: Fontainebleau Additional via ferrata systems: Ferrata Schall, Ferrata Num, Ferrata French Additional trad systems: Russian Additional deep water solo systems: DWS Safe Additional alpine systems: Russian
UK	British British rating systems including technical, adjectival, bouldering and aid systems.	Countries: Ireland, Jersey, Kenya, United Kingdom General grade systems: British Adj., V-Scale, Aid, Aid, French Additional ice systems: Mixed Rock/Ice, Scottish Winter, Scottish Winter Technical Additional boulder systems: Fontainebleau Additional via ferrata systems: Ferrata Schall, Ferrata Num, Ferrata French Additional trad systems: British Tech. Additional sport systems: French Additional deep water solo systems: DWS Safe Additional alpine systems: Scottish Winter, Scottish Winter Technical
US	American (YDS ...) American rating systems including YDS, aid, bouldering, alpine and ice systems.	Countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Georgia, Ghana, Greenland, Guatemala, Honduras, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Micronesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Venezuela, Yemen General grade systems: Class, YDS, V-Scale, B-Scale, S-Scale, P-Scale, Joshua Tree Scale, Aid, Aid, NCCS Alpine Grade, Protection Rating, Alpine Ice, Water Ice, Mixed Rock/Ice, NCCS Scale, Ferrata Schall, DWS Safe Additional via ferrata systems: Ferrata Schall, Ferrata Num, Ferrata French

Force grading systemBack to contents

You can force a grading system when you input a grade by starting with the grading system label followed by a colon then the grade. For example 'FR:6a+'. The table below shows available grading system labels.

Label	Rating system
RPROT	Protection Level (trad)
SWE	Swedish
MIXED	Mixed Rock/Ice
SPROT	Protection Level (sport)
UIAA	UIAA
BLDP	P-Scale
UK	British Adj.
AICE	Alpine Ice
BRZ_DEG	Brazil General
SX	Saxon
WICE	Water Ice
SA	South African
DWS_S	DWS Safe
CLS	Class
JUMP	Jumps
YDS	YDS
BLDB	B-Scale
FIN	Finnish
OLDSA	Old South African
BLDV	V-Scale
POL	Polish
VF_FR	Ferrata French
PROT	Protection Rating
UKT	British Tech.
FB_TRAV	Font Traverse
BLDJT	Joshua Tree Scale
NCCST	NCCS Scale
FR	French
AIDC	Aid
NCCS	NCCS Alpine Grade
AID	Aid
DST	Distance
FB	Fontainebleau
SCHALL	Ferrata Schall
NWG	Norwegian
AU	Ewbanks
AUAID	Aid
COM	Committment Level
SCTW	Scottish Winter
ANNOT	Annot B-Scale
IFAS	IFAS
BRZ	Brazil Technical
ALSK	Alaska
RUS	Russian
SCTWT	Scottish Winter Technical
VF_NUM	Ferrata Num
EXP	Exposure
BLDS	S-Scale

ExamplesBack to contents

The best way to explain how the system converts the plain text you enter into grades is to look at some examples.

Try it yourselfBack to contents

Context	Style	Text entered	Grade	Comment
US	Trad	5.12a
US	Trad	5.12		The system has a grade system where grades are expressed as 5.12-, 5.12 and 5.12+.
US	Trad	5.12+
US	Trad	5.12a+		Note that + does not always form part of the official grade, in which case it is ignored.
US	Trad	12a		The system is able to work out common partial grades.
US	Trad	12		Partial grades can be very dependent on the context (in US context this is 5.12, in AU context this is 12).
AU	Trad	12		Compare to above example.
US	Trad	5.12a-5.12c		This is interpreted as a grade range.
US	Trad	5.12a-b		Common abbreviated grade ranges.
US	Trad	5.12a/b		The forward slash '/' is interpreted as a range, which means the system difficulty is assigned in the middle of the grades.
AU	Trad	17/18
US	Trad	5.10,5.12d,5.9		Commas used to indicate multi-pitch, in which case the system will assign the highest grade.
US	Trad	5.9 S		Protection rating is displayed as part of the grade.
US	Trad	5.10a X,5.12		Multipitch may include protection rating.
US	Trad	5.10a,5.10b M1,5.9 M4		Multipitch may include aid grades.
US	Trad	5.9**		The contribution will also be attributed with . Learn more about Stars and route quality.
FR	Sport	5c		The French grade.
UK	Sport	5c		The British technical grade.
FR	Boulder	5C		The Fontainebleau bouldering grade.
FR	Boulder	5c		The Fontainebleau bouldering grade can also be written in lower case.
UK	Trad	E2 5c		The British adjectival and technical grade.
UK	Trad	D		The British adjectival.
UK	Trad	Difficult		Yup, according to the British adjectival system, difficult is a beginner's route - go figure. I think climbing developed faster than they could keep up.
AU	Trad	19		Australian Ewbanks grade.
SA	Trad	19		South African grade (compare to level of difficulty for an Australian Ewbanks grade 19 above).
AU	Trad	21 (S)		Australian Ewbanks grade with a sport route indicator. This is in for historical reasons (common for Australian guidebooks to use this notation), but because of it's potential confusion with the protection rating S we don't want it to be used anymore. For sport routes just tick the sport route indicator. Note the sport indicator must have brackets.
AU	Trad	21 M2		Australian Ewbanks grade with an Australian aid grade.
AU	Aid	M2		Australian aid grade.
US	Trad	Class 2
US	Trad	Class IV
US	Trad	F6		NCCS Scale.
UIAA	Trad	11-		UIAA grade.
SA	Trad	D3		Old South African grade.
SX	Trad	VIIa		Saxon grade.
US	Trad	5.6A1+		Free plus Aid grade.
US	Aid	5.6C1+		Free plus hammerless Aid grade.
US	Aid	A1+		Straight Aid grade.
US	Boulder	V4		Vermin V-Scale for bouldering.
US	Boulder	B5.6		The little more obscure Expanded Gill B-Scale for bouldering.
US	Boulder	B2-		And another B-Scale.
US	Boulder	S4-		Bouldering Smith Rocks S-Scale.
US	Boulder	P10		Bouldering Phoenix P-Scale.
US	Boulder	C+		Bouldering Joshua Tree Scale.
AU	Boulder	V0+		But really the bouldering V-Scale is accepted everywhere, so just use that.
US	Ice	AI5-		Alpine Ice.
US	Ice	WI5-		Water Ice.
US	Ice	M3		Mixed rock and ice.
FR	Trad	PD		IFAS (International French Adjectival System).
US	Alpine	VI		National Climbing Classification System (NCCS) Alpine Grade.
US	Alpine	VI 5.11c A2+		Alpine route with free and aid climbing.
UIAA	Via ferrata	E		Via ferrata Schall.
UIAA	Via ferrata	4		Via ferrata numeric.
UIAA	Via ferrata	TD		Via ferrata french.
UIAA	Via ferrata	Difficile		Via ferrata french using words.
AU	Sport	12 # i think		You can add comments to your grade contribution by using '#'.
FR	Sport	UKT:5c+		You can force a grading system in a foreign context by appending the gradings system label (note that it must be the explicit grading system label, not a context label).
HK	Sport	5c		Hong Kong uses French grading system for sport routes.
HK	Trad	5c		Hong Kong uses UK technical system for trad routes.
HK	Boulder	V2		Hong Kong uses V-Scale for boulder routes.
UIAA	Boulder	5		UIAA uses UIAA system for bouldering sometimes.
UIAA	Boulder	5c		UIAA uses Fontainebleau system for bouldering sometimes.
UK	Sport	FR:4c		4c would normally covert to the British Technical grade in UK context, however the override sets the system to French.
UIAA	Trad	8- [6+ A1]		Alternate grade with aid modification. System assigns the most free grade.

Grades in a gymBack to contents

Some gyms decided to use their own grade system, often using colors or icons to denominate relative difficulty. On theCrag, gyms can opt to use their own color codes or any other available grade system. See Gym Solution by theCrag for more information.

In case gyms opted for a color scheme, theCrag color scheme does not apply to their routes on theCrag, but rather the color specified by the gym for that route.

Country contextsBack to contents

Default contexts are set at the country level but can be overridden at any area below the country. For example Germany has a UIAA context, but there are crags which override to a Saxon (SX) context. The following table shows the current system settings for country context.

	Code	Country	# routes	Context
	AF	Afghanistan	2	US
	AX	Aland Islands	0	US
	AL	Albania	203	US
	DZ	Algeria	2	US
	AS	American Samoa	0	US
	AD	Andorra	0	FR
	AO	Angola	0	US
	AI	Anguilla	0	US
	AG	Antigua and Barbuda	0	US
	AR	Argentina	4,735	US
	AM	Armenia	176	US
	AW	Aruba	0	US
	AU	Australia	93,077	AU
	AT	Austria	29,564	UIAA
	AZ	Azerbaijan	0	UIAA
	BS	Bahamas	0	US
	BH	Bahrain	0	US
	BD	Bangladesh	0	US
	BB	Barbados	0	US
	BY	Belarus	0	UIAA
	BE	Belgium	6,234	FR
	BZ	Belize	24	US
	BJ	Benin	0	US
	BM	Bermuda	0	US
	BT	Bhutan	15	US
	BO	Bolivia	149	US
	BA	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,104	FR
	BW	Botswana	46	SA
	BV	Bouvet Island	0	US
	BR	Brazil	9,249	BRZ
	IO	British Indian Ocean Territory	0	UK
	BN	Brunei Darussalam	0	US
	BG	Bulgaria	5,211	UIAA
	BF	Burkina Faso	0	US
	BI	Burundi	0	US
	KH	Cambodia	129	US
	CM	Cameroon	0	US
	CA	Canada	28,046	US
	CV	Cape Verde	0	US
	KY	Cayman Islands	0	US
	CF	Central African Republic	0	US
	TD	Chad	0	US
	CL	Chile	2,389	US
	CN	China	11,345	US
	CX	Christmas Island	0	US
	CC	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	0	US
	CO	Colombia	1,361	US
	KM	Comoros	0	US
	CD	Congo Democratic Republic	0	US
	CG	Congo Republic	0	US
	CK	Cook Islands	0	US
	CR	Costa Rica	120	US
	CI	Cote d'Ivoire	0	US
	HR	Croatia	5,343	FR
	CU	Cuba	363	FR
	CY	Cyprus	0	US
	CZ	Czech Republic	82,705	UIAA
	DK	Denmark	1,089	UIAA
	DJ	Djibouti	0	US
	DM	Dominica	0	US
	DO	Dominican Republic	0	US
	EC	Ecuador	552	US
	EG	Egypt	236	FR
	SV	El Salvador	74	US
	GQ	Equatorial Guinea	0	US
	ER	Eritrea	0	US
	EE	Estonia	360	FR
	ET	Ethiopia	76	US
	FK	Falkland Islands	0	US
	FO	Faroe Islands	0	US
	FJ	Fiji	2	US
	FI	Finland	8,345	FIN
	FR	France	98,982	FR
	GF	French Guiana	0	FR
	PF	French Polynesia	0	FR
	TF	French Southern Territories	0	FR
	GA	Gabon	0	US
	GM	Gambia	0	US
	GE	Georgia	294	US
	DE	Germany	101,921	UIAA
	GH	Ghana	33	US
	GI	Gibraltar	0	US
	GR	Greece	17,766	FR
	GL	Greenland	46	US
	GD	Grenada	0	US
	GP	Guadeloupe	0	US
	GU	Guam	0	US
	GT	Guatemala	160	US
	GG	Guernsey	0	US
	GN	Guinea	0	US
	GW	Guinea-Bissaau	0	US
	GY	Guyana	0	US
	HT	Haiti	0	US
	HM	Heard and McDonald Islands	0	US
	HN	Honduras	22	US
	HK	Hong Kong	3,192	HK
	HU	Hungary	2,987	UIAA
	IS	Iceland	299	US
	IN	India	716	US
	ID	Indonesia	720	US
	IR	Iran	310	US
	IQ	Iraq	0	US
	IE	Ireland	2,760	UK
	IM	Isle of Man	0	US
	IL	Israel	1,081	US
	IT	Italy	68,908	FR
	JM	Jamaica	0	US
	JP	Japan	3,028	US
	JE	Jersey	52	UK
	JO	Jordan	600	FR
	KZ	Kazakhstan	260	US
	KE	Kenya	1,765	UK
	KI	Kiribati	0	US
	KW	Kuwait	0	US
	KG	Kyrgyzstan	110	FR
	LA	Laos	725	FR
	LV	Latvia	0	FR
	LB	Lebanon	223	US
	LS	Lesotho	47	SA
	LR	Liberia	0	US
	LY	Libya	0	US
	LI	Lichtenstein	30	FR
	LT	Lithuania	0	FR
	LU	Luxembourg	281	FR
	MO	Macau	0	US
	MK	Macedonia	747	FR
	MG	Madagascar	162	FR
	MW	Malawi	0	US
	MY	Malaysia	1,244	FR
	MV	Maldives	0	US
	ML	Mali	2	US
	MT	Malta	1,184	FR
	MH	Marshall Islands	0	US
	MQ	Martinique	0	US
	MR	Mauritania	8	US
	MU	Mauritius	0	US
	YT	Mayotte	0	US
	MX	Mexico	8,090	US
	FM	Micronesia	1	US
	MD	Moldova	30	FR
	MC	Monaco	0	FR
	MN	Mongolia	0	US
	ME	Montenegro	407	UIAA
	MS	Montserrat	0	US
	MA	Morocco	1,053	FR
	MZ	Mozambique	0	US
	MM	Myanmar	25	US
	NA	Namibia	235	SA
	NR	Nauru	0	US
	NP	Nepal	251	US
	NL	Netherlands	1,151	FR
	NC	New Caledonia	172	FR
	NZ	New Zealand	20,565	AU
	NI	Nicaragua	7	US
	NE	Niger	0	US
	NG	Nigeria	0	US
	NU	Niue	0	US
	NF	Norfolk Island	0	US
	KP	North Korea	0	US
	MP	Northern Marina Islands	0	US
	NO	Norway	22,179	NWG
	OM	Oman	72	US
	PK	Pakistan	115	US
	PW	Palau	0	US
	PS	Palestine	0	US
	PA	Panama	52	US
	PG	Papua New Guinea	1	AU
	PY	Paraguay	0	US
	PE	Peru	903	FR
	PH	Philippines	385	US
	PN	Pitcairn Island	0	US
	PL	Poland	20,647	POL
	PT	Portugal	4,673	FR
	PR	Puerto Rico	0	US
	QA	Qatar	0	US
	RE	Reunion	0	US
	RO	Romania	7,785	FR
	RU	Russia	3,516	FR
	RW	Rwanda	0	US
	SH	Saint Helena	0	US
	KN	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	US
	LC	Saint Lucia	0	US
	PM	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	US
	VC	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0	US
	WS	Samoa	0	US
	SM	San Marino	0	US
	ST	Sao Tome and Principe	0	US
	SA	Saudi Arabia	346	US
	SN	Senegal	0	US
	RS	Serbia	1,859	FR
	SC	Seychelles	0	US
	SL	Sierra Leone	0	US
	SG	Singapore	144	FR
	SK	Slovakia	10,781	UIAA
	SI	Slovenia	4,787	FR
	SB	Solomon Islands	0	US
	SO	Somalia	0	US
	ZA	South Africa	18,278	SA
	GS	South Georgia	0	US
	KR	South Korea	3,075	US
	ES	Spain	91,521	FR
	LK	Sri Lanka	16	US
	SD	Sudan	8	US
	SR	Suriname	7	US
	SJ	Svalbard	0	US
	SZ	Swaziland	0	US
	SE	Sweden	19,392	SWE
	CH	Switzerland	42,977	FR
	SY	Syria	0	US
	TW	Taiwan	854	US
	TJ	Tajikistan	251	US
	TZ	Tanzania	201	US
	TH	Thailand	2,573	FR
	TG	Togo	0	US
	TK	Tokelau	0	US
	TO	Tonga	75	AU
	TT	Trinidad and Tobago	0	US
	TN	Tunisia	49	FR
	TR	Turkey	2,935	FR
	TM	Turkmenistan	0	US
	TC	Turks and Caicos Islands	0	US
	TV	Tuvalu	0	US
	UG	Uganda	143	SA
	UA	Ukraine	4,596	FR
	AE	United Arab Emirates	147	US
	GB	United Kingdom	55,025	UK
	UM	United States Minor Outlying Islands	0	US
	US	United States of America	180,431	US
	UY	Uruguay	0	US
	UZ	Uzbekistan	0	US
	VU	Vanuatu	0	US
	VA	Vatican City	0	US
	VE	Venezuela	126	US
	VN	Vietnam	792	FR
	VI	Virgin Islands	0	US
	WF	Wallis and Futuna	0	US
	EH	Western Sahara	0	US
	YE	Yemen	5	US
	ZM	Zambia	0	US
	ZW	Zimbabwe	0	US

Further readingBack to contents

• Grades and Grade Conversions
• Route Gear Styles
• Stars and route quality
• Adding and Editing Routes
• Logging ascents
• Gym Solution by theCrag

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