Apple develops and designs all its products in California. Apple’s main assembler of iPhones is Foxconn which is mainly based in China. Hence “Designed by Apple in California, Assembeled in China”. Apple outsources the manufacturing of various parts across the entire world.

The country code could be the last one or two letters before the “/” in the part number. For example, the Japan iPhone 12 Pro 256 GB Silver has the model number A2406 and Part Number MGMA3J/A. And its country code is “J“.
Here’s the list of All Country Codes
- A – Canada
- AB – UAE, Saudi Arabia
- AE – UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
- AH – Bahrain, Kuwait
- B – Great Britain or Ireland
- BZ – Brazil
- C, VC, CL – Canada
- CH – China
- CN – Slovakia
- СZ – Czech Republic
- D – Germany
- DN – Holland, Austria, Germany
- E – Mexico
- EE – Estonia
- ET – Estonia
- F – France
- FB – Luxembourg
- FS – Finland
- FD – Liechtenstein, Austria, or Switzerland
- GR – Greece
- HB – Israel
- HN – India
- IP – Italy
- J – Japan
- KH – China, South Korea
- KN – Denmark or Norway
- KS – Finland or Sweden
- LA – Peru, Ecuador, Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia, El Salvador
- LE – Argentina
- LL – USA
- LP – Poland
- LT – Lithuania
- LV – Latvia
- LZ – Paraguay, Chile
- MG – Hungary
- MY from Malaysia
- NF – Luxembourg, Belgium, France
- PK – Finland, Poland
- PL – Poland
- PM – Poland
- PO – Portugal
- PP – Philippines
- QL – Italy, Spain, Portugal
- QN – Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland
- RK – Kazakhstan
- RM – Russia or Kazakhstan
- RO – Romania
- RP – Russia
- RR – Russia
- RS – Russia
- RU – Russia
- SE – Serbia
- SL – Slovakia
- SO – South Africa
- SU – Ukraine
- T – Italy
- TA – Taiwan
- TU – Turkey
- UA – Ukraine
- X – Australia
- X – New Zealand
- Y – Spain
- ZA from Singapore
- ZD – Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, France, Switzerland, Monaco
- ZP – Hong Kong, Macau
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Comments
I came across this article while searching for an Apple Watch. I was able to identify the country of origin from the SKU number on the box.
This is true for all Apple Devices and not just iPhones
True That
I found this information very useful when buying a preowned device.
I saved this list in my notes
MNGG3J/A model no
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Hi, this is iPhone 13 128GB Green from Japan