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ISO 3166-2:CN

  • ️Tue May 21 2002

ISO 3166-2:CN is the entry for China in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g. provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

Currently for China, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for the following province-level subdivisions:

The full name of China in ISO 3166 is the People's Republic of China[1] (PRC). Yet China is de facto divided into the PRC and the Republic of China (Taiwan) with limited recognition. Taiwan, which consists of the namesake island and the Penghu Islands, is included as a province of China because[2] of its political status within the United Nations, as even though it is de facto under the jurisdiction of the Republic of China instead of the People's Republic of China ("China"), the United Nations considers Taiwan as part of "China". In addition, Kinmen and the Matsu Islands in the fractured Fuchien (Fujian) Province are also governed by the ROC.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is CN, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of China. The second part is a two-letter alphabetic code specified by Guobiao GB/T 2260 (first published 1991, prior to ISO 3166-2, first published 1998).

Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).

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Notes

Besides being included as subdivisions of China in ISO 3166-2, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao are also officially assigned their own country codes in ISO 3166-1.

The following changes to the entry have been announced in newsletters by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998:

Newsletter Date issued Description of change in newsletter Code/Subdivision change
Newsletter I-2 2002-05-21 Addition of one new entity. Precise specification and correction of Pinyin names. List source updated Subdivisions added:
CN-92 Macau
Newsletter I-6 2004-03-08 Deletion of one name form in CN-15

The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:

Effective date of change Short description of change (en) Code/Subdivision change
2017-11-23 Change of subdivision codes
change of subdivision name of CN-NM, CN-GX, CN-XZ, CN-NX, CN-XJ, CN-BJ, CN-TJ, CN-SH, CN-CQ, CN-HE, CN-SX, CN-LN, CN-JL, CN-HL CN-JS, CN-ZJ, CN-AH, CN-FJ, CN-JX, CN-SD, CN-HA, CN-HB, CN-HN, CN-GD, CN-HI, CN-SC, CN-GZ, CN-YN, CN-SN, CN-GS, CN-QH, CN-TW, CN-HK, CN-MO
addition of remark in parentheses to subdivision name for CN-HK, CN-MO in English
addition of region CN-MO in Portuguese
update code source
update list source 		Change of subdivision code:
CN-11 → CN-BJ
CN-12 → CN-TJ
CN-13 → CN-HE
CN-14 → CN-SX
CN-15 → CN-NM
CN-21 → CN-LN
CN-22 → CN-JL
CN-23 → CN-HL
CN-31 → CN-SH
CN-32 → CN-JS
CN-33 → CN-ZJ
CN-34 → CN-AH
CN-35 → CN-FJ
CN-36 → CN-JX
CN-37 → CN-SD
CN-41 → CN-HA
CN-42 → CN-HB
CN-43 → CN-HN
CN-44 → CN-GD
CN-45 → CN-GX
CN-46 → CN-HI
CN-50 → CN-CQ
CN-51 → CN-SC
CN-52 → CN-GZ
CN-53 → CN-YN
CN-54 → CN-XZ
CN-61 → CN-SN
CN-62 → CN-GS
CN-63 → CN-QH
CN-64 → CN-NX
CN-65 → CN-XJ
CN-71 → CN-TW
CN-91 → CN-HK
CN-92 → CN-MO
2018-11-26 Correction of the romanization system label
2019-11-22 Change language from mon to zho for CN-NM
2021-11-25 Change of spelling of CN-NX; Update List Source
  1. ^ "ISO 3166 information for CN". International Organization for Standardization. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
  2. ^ "ISO 3166 – FAQs – Specific". ISO. Archived from the original on 2012-06-16.