ISO 3166-2 is the second part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO 3166 is a three-part Geographic coding standard for coding the names of countries and Dependent areas and the principal subdivisions Standardization (or standardisation) is the process of developing and agreeing upon technical standards. It is a geocode system created for coding the names of country subdivisions and dependent areas. A Geocode ( G eospatial E ntity O bject Code) is representation format of a geospatial coordinate measurement used to provide a standard representation Country subdivision refers to the division of a Country 's territory for the sake of its administration, description or other such purpose A dependent territory dependent area or dependency is a territory that does not possess full political Independence or Sovereignty as a The purpose of the standard is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers, and such; anywhere where a short alphanumeric code can serve to clearly indicate a location in a more convenient and less ambiguous form than the full place name. There are around 3700 different codes.
The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 2: Country subdivision code. It was first published in 1998.
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ISO 3166-2 codes consist of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code element, the second is alphabetic or numeric and has one, two or three characters. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter Country codes in the ISO 3166-1 standard to represent countries and dependent territories. The second part often is based on national standards.
Changes were announced in different newsletters. These mostly comprise addition of new subdivisions and spelling corrections.
A second edition (ISO 3166-2:2007) was published on 2007-12-15. ISO 3166-22000-06-21 is an ISO Newsletter (numbered 1 which was issued on June 6[[ 000]] ISO 3166-22002-05-21 is an ISO Newsletter (numbered 2 which was issued on May 21[[ 002]] ISO 3166-22002-08-20 is an ISO Newsletter (numbered 3 which was issued on August 20[[ 002]] ISO 3166-22002-12-10 is an ISO Newsletter (numbered 4 which was issued on December 10[[ 002]] ISO 3166-22003-09-05 is an ISO Newsletter (numbered 5 which was issued on September 5[[ 003]] ISO 3166-22004-03-08 is an International Organization for Standardization Newsletter (numbered 6 which was issued on March 8[[ 004]] ISO 3166-22005-09-03 is an ISO Newsletter (numbered 7 which was issued on September 3 2005. ISO 3166-22007-04-17 is an ISO Newsletter (numbered 8 which was issued on April 17 2007. ISO 3166-22007-11-28 is an ISO Newsletter (numbered 9 which was issued on November 28 2007.
To find the ISO 3166-2 codes for each country see ISO 3166-1, a list of countries. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below --> ISO 3166-1, as part of the ISO 3166 standard If you are familiar with the two-letter country codes (similar to internet country codes) you can also use the format matrix given below.
Both ways would lead to articles like ISO 3166-2:XX, where XX stands for the ISO 3166-1 code, e. g. ISO 3166-2:AU leads to the code list for Australia. ISO 3166-2AU is an ISO standard which defines Geocodes it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Australia.
Some of the codes are developed by ISO 3166/MA; these are copyrighted. Others are already in use in the specific countries.
| length | Copyright | alpha | numeric | alpha-numeric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| constant 1 char |
Free: | |||
| Partially free: | ||||
| ISO - Copyright: | ||||
| Unsorted: | AR, BO, CR, EC, FJ, GM, KI, KM, LS, LU, MG, NE, SL, ST, TG, TM, VE | GA, IS, AT, PA | ||
| constant 2 chars |
Free: | CH, US | FR | |
| Partially free: | AL, ID | TN | ||
| ISO - Copyright: | ||||
| Unsorted: | AE, AM, BI, BJ, BN, BR, BS, BW, BY, CA, CD, CL, CM, CV, CZ, DE, DJ, ER, ET, FI, GE, GH, GN, GT, GW, GY, HN, HT, HU, IN, IT, IQ, JO, KW, LA, LB, LR, LT, LV, LY, MD, MK, MU, MW, NA, NG, NI, NL, NP, OM, PK, PL, QA, SB, SH, SK, SN, SO, SR, SV, SY, SZ, TJ, TL, UY, UZ, WS, YE, YU, ZA, ZW | AD, AG, BB, BD, BG, BH, CI, CN, CU, CY, DM, DO, DZ, EE, GD, GR, HR, IR, JM, JP, KN, KR, LI, LK, ME, MM, MY, NO, NR, PT, RS, RW, SA, SC, SD, SM, TO, TR, TZ, UA, UM, VC, VN, ZM | BT | |
| constant 3 chars |
Free | |||
| Partially free: | KP | |||
| ISO - Copyright: | MA | |||
| Unsorted: | AO, AF, BA, BE, BF, CS, FM, GB, KZ, MD, MH, MX, NZ, PE, PG, PH, TT, TV, TW | DK, KE, PW, SI, UG, VU | ||
| mixed 1,2 chars |
Free: | IE | ||
| Partially free: | ||||
| ISO - Copyright: | ||||
| Unsorted: | no system?: ES, GQ, IL
|
KH | TH | |
| mixed 2,3 |
Free: | |||
| Partially free: | ||||
| ISO - Copyright: | CO | |||
| Unsorted: | ?: BZ, EG, TD
|
MR, MV | ||
| mixed 1,3 |
Free: | |||
| Partially free: | ||||
| ISO - Copyright: | ||||
| Unsorted: | 3 for capital, 1 for provinces: MZ | MN | ML | |
| mixed 1,2,3 |
Free: | |||
| Partially free: | ||||
| ISO - Copyright: | ||||
| Unsorted: | CG, PY |