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The format of the ISO 3166-2 codes is different for each country. The codes may be alphabetic, numeric, or alphanumeric, and they may also be of constant or variable length. The following is a table of the ISO 3166-2 codes of each country (those with codes defined), grouped by their format: [citation needed]
state nomos Greece: prefecture novads Latvia: municipality (amalgamated urban areas without town rights) NUTS Europe: Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics obec Czech Republic: municipality Slovakia: область : Countries formerly in the Soviet Union or Yugoslavia: province, region община Bulgaria: municipality okres
28 provinces or regions (oblasti, области) 265 municipalities (obshtini, общини) wards or quarters (rayon) mayoralties (kmetstvo) settlements (naseleno myasto) Burkina Faso: Unitary 13 regions (régions) 45 provinces: 325 departments (départements) [m] Burundi: Unitary 18 provinces: 119 communes: 2,639 collines [n] Cambodia ...
A federated state may be referred to as a province, region, canton, land, governorate, oblast, emirate, or country. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Administrative units that are not federated or confederated but enjoy a greater degree of autonomy or self-government than other territories within the same country can be considered autonomous regions or de ...
Under a set of 1888–1890 laws on local government [2] until the 1920s, each prefecture (then only 3 -fu and 42 -ken; Hokkaidō and Okinawa-ken were subject to different laws until the 20th century) was subdivided into cities (市, shi) and districts (郡, gun) and each district into towns (町, chō/machi) and villages (村, son/mura).
Osaka Prefecture and Kyoto Prefecture are referred to as an "urban prefecture" (府, fu). The Chinese character from which this is derived implies a core urban zone of national importance in the middle period of China, or implies a subdivision of a province in the late period of China.
Currently for Japan, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 47 prefectures. Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is JP, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Japan. The second part is two digits (01–47), which is the Japanese Industrial Standard JIS X 0401 code of the prefecture. The codes are assigned roughly from north ...
Province-like, which is the municipality of Chongqing, a merger of 4 former prefectures and similar to the former Eastern-Sichuan province. Prefecture-like, which are the other three municipalities and almost all prefectural-level cities, usually 10–1,000 times larger than the urban center and a conglomeration of several counties and county ...