ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2 is a standard for coding the names of subdivisions of countries and dependent areas and is part of ISO 3166.

The code consists of two parts, seperated by "-". The first part is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code element, the second is alphabetic or numeric and has one, two or three digits. The second part often is based on national standards.

• alphabetic
  • 1 letter

    AR, EC, TM, VE

  • 1 and 2 letter

    ES, MY, SE

  • 1 letter for regions, 2 letter for capital

    KG

  • 1 letter for capital, 2 letter for departments

    RO

  • 2 letter

    AE, AL, AU, BR, BI, BJ, CA, CD, CH, CL, CV, CZ, DE, ER, ET, FI, GE, GN, GT, ID, IN, IT, LA, MD, MU, MW, NG, NI, PL, TJ, TL, US, UZ, YE, YU

  • 2 letter for republics, 3 letter for cities, regions, districts

    RU

  • 2 letter for cities, 3 letter for rayons

    AZ

  • 3 letter

    AO, [[ISO 3166-2 codes for

Belgium|BE]], GB, KP, KZ, MA, MX, NZ, PH, TW, UG

• numeric
  • 1 and 2 digit

    KH

  • 2 digit

    BD, BG, CN, DO, FR, HR, IR, JP, KR, NO, TR, VN

  • 3 digit

    SI

See also: subnational entity, list of subnational entities, list of capitals of subnational entities which includes ISO 3166-2 codes.

External links

• http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/04background-on-iso-3166/iso3166-2.html
• http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/service/sublocat.htm