Topic summary
Country subdivision
Extracted from the Wikipedia article ISO 3166-2.
ISO 3166-2 is part of the ISO 3166standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and defines codes for identifying the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1. 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.