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ISO 3166-2:FR is the entry for France 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 France, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for the following subdivisions:

Metropolitan France (three levels):
12 metropolitan regions
three metropolitan collectivities with special status
95 metropolitan departments
one European collectivity
Overseas France:
one dependency
five overseas collectivities
one overseas collectivity with special status
three overseas departmental collectivities
one overseas territory
two overseas unique territorial collectivities

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of France. The second part is either of the following:

one digit followed by two letters: European collectivity
two digits: metropolitan departments
two digits followed by a letter: metropolitan collectivities with special status
two letters: overseas collectivities, overseas collectivity with special status, overseas territory (matching their ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes)
three letters: metropolitan regions
three digits: overseas departmental collectivities, overseas unique territorial collectivities

The metropolitan departments use their INSEE codes, which are currently used in postal codes, and used in vehicle registration plates until 2009. INSEE codes are assigned as follows:

<code>01</code>–<code>89</code> except <code>20</code>: departments created before the 20th century, assigned in alphabetical order (prefixes in the form of "Bas-" and "Haute-" are ignored at the primary sort level), except Paris and Yvelines, which replaced the former departments Seine and Seine-et-Oise respectively after the reorganization of the Paris region in 1968;
<code>90</code>: Territoire de Belfort, which was given department status in 1922;
<code>91</code>–<code>95</code>: departments created after the reorganization of the Paris region in 1968;
<code>2A</code> and <code>2B</code>: Corse-du-Sud and Haute-Corse, which were created after the division of Corsica in 1975, whose INSEE code was <code>20</code>.

Current codes

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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First-level metropolitan subdivisions

{|class="wikitable sortable"

! Code

! Subdivision name (fr)

! Subdivision name (en)

! Subdivision category

| Auvergne-Rhône-Alps

| metropolitan region

| Burgundy-Franche-Comté

| metropolitan region

| Brittany

| metropolitan region

| Centre-Loire Valley

| metropolitan region

| Corsica

| metropolitan collectivity with special status

| Great East

| metropolitan region

| Upper France

| metropolitan region

| Paris

| metropolitan region

| Normandy

| metropolitan region

| New Aquitaine

| metropolitan region

| Occitania

| metropolitan region

| Loire Country

| metropolitan region

| Provence-Alps-French Riviera

| metropolitan region

Second-level subdivisions

{| class="wikitable sortable"

! Code

! Subdivision name (fr)

! Subdivision category

| Ain

| metropolitan department

| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes|

| Aisne

| metropolitan department

| Brittany (administrative region)|

| Creuse

| metropolitan department

| Nouvelle-Aquitaine|

| Dordogne

| metropolitan department

| Occitania (administrative region)|

| Gers

| metropolitan department

| Normandy|

| Marne

| metropolitan department

| Grand Est|

| Martinique

| overseas unique territorial collectivity

| -

| Mayenne

| metropolitan department

| Pays de la Loire|

| Mayotte

| overseas departmental collectivity

| -

| Greater Lyon

| |metropolitan collectivity with special status

| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes|

| Meurthe and Moselle

| metropolitan department

| Grand Est|

| Meuse

| metropolitan department

| Grand Est|

| Morbihan

| metropolitan department

| Brittany (administrative region)|

| Moselle

| metropolitan department

| Grand Est|

| Nievre

| metropolitan department

| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté|

| North

| metropolitan department

| Hauts-de-France|

| Oise

| metropolitan department

| Hauts-de-France|

| Orne

| metropolitan department

| Normandy|

| City of Paris

| metropolitan collectivity with special status

| Île-de-France|

| Strait of Calais

| metropolitan department

| Hauts-de-France|

| Puy de Dome

| metropolitan department

| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes|

| Atlantic Pyrenees

| metropolitan department

| Nouvelle-Aquitaine|

| Eastern Pyrenees

| metropolitan department

| Occitania (administrative region)|

| Rhône

| metropolitan department

| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes|

| Saone and Loire

| metropolitan department

| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté|

| Sarthe

| metropolitan department

| Pays de la Loire|

| Savoy

| metropolitan department

| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes|

| Seine and Marne

| metropolitan department

| Île-de-France|

| Maritime Seine

| metropolitan department

| Normandy|

| Saint Denis Seine

| metropolitan department

| Île-de-France|

| Somme

| metropolitan department

| Hauts-de-France|

| Tarn

| metropolitan department

| Occitania (administrative region)|

| Tarn and Garonne

| metropolitan department

| Occitania (administrative region)|

| Belfort Territory

| metropolitan department

| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté|

| Oise Valley

| metropolitan department

| Île-de-France|

| Marne Valley

| metropolitan department

| Île-de-France|

| Var

| metropolitan department

| Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur|

| Vaucluse

| metropolitan department

| Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur|

| Vendee

| metropolitan department

| Pays de la Loire|

| Vienne

| metropolitan department

| Nouvelle-Aquitaine|

| Vosges

| metropolitan department

| Grand Est|

| Yonne

| metropolitan department

| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté|

| Yvelines

| metropolitan department

| Île-de-France|

; Explanatory note

Third-level subdivisions

{| class="wikitable sortable"

! Code

! Subdivision name (fr)

! Subdivision name (en)

! Subdivision category

! In subdivision

| Lower Rhine

| metropolitan department

| European Collectivity of Alsace|

| Upper Rhine

| metropolitan department

| European Collectivity of Alsace|

Dependency, overseas territory, and overseas collectivities

{| class="wikitable sortable"

! Code

! Subdivision name (fr)

! Subdivision name (en)

! Subdivision category

| Clipperton

| dependency

| New Caledonia

| overseas collectivity with special status

| French Polynesia

| overseas collectivity

| Saint Barts

| overseas collectivity

| Saint Martin

| overseas collectivity

| Saint Peter and Miquelon

| overseas collectivity

| French Southern Territories

| Terres australes françaises

| ISO 3166-2:TF

| Wallis-et-Futuna

| Wallis and Futuna

| Wallis-et-Futuna

| ISO 3166-2:WF

The dependency Clipperton Island () is also exceptionally reserved the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code on the request of the International Telecommunication Union.

Metropolitan France (the part of France located in Europe) was previously officially assigned its own set of country codes in ISO 3166-1, with alpha-2 code , before it was deleted from ISO 3166-1. The code is now exceptionally reserved on the request of France.

; Explanatory note

Changes

The following changes to the entry have been announced by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO in 1998. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.

{| class="wikitable"

! Source

! Date issued

! Description of change

! Code/Subdivision change

| id="I-2" | [https://web.archive.org/web/20120131102127/http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_3166-2_newsletter_i-2_en.pdf ]

| Correction of the Metropolitan region code in FR-79

| id="I-9" | [https://www.iso.org/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/archive/pdf/en/newsletter_i-9.pdf ]

| Addition of administrative subdivisions and of their code elements

| style=white-space:nowrap | Subdivisions added: Clipperton Saint-Barthélemy Saint-Martin

| id="II-1" | [https://www.iso.org/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/archive/pdf/en/iso_3166-2_newsletter_ii-1_corrected_2010-02-19.pdf ]

| (corrected )

| Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, alphabetical re-ordering

| id="II-3" | [https://www.iso.org/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/archive/pdf/en/iso_3166-2_newsletter_ii-3_2011-12-13.pdf ]

| (corrected )

| NL II-2 correction for ultramarine administrative organisation change and alphabetical re-ordering.

| style=white-space:nowrap | Category change: Mayotte overseas territorial collectivity → overseas department

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| Change of the delimitation of the regions, reducing their number from 22 to 13 in metropolitan France, change of parent subdivision of metropolitan departments; addition of overseas regions FR-GUA, FR-LRE, FR-MAY; change of subdivision category from overseas department to overseas territorial collectivity for FR-GF, FR-MQ; update List Source.

| style=white-space:nowrap | Subdivisions added: Guadeloupe La Réunion Mayotte Category change:

| Centre-Val de Loire

| Champagne-Ardenne

| Grand Est

| Corsica

| Corse

| Upper Normandy

| Normandie

| Languedoc-Roussillon

| Occitanie

| Limousin

| Nouvelle-Aquitaine

| Lorraine

| Grand Est

| Occitanie

| Nord-Pas-de-Calais

| Hauts-de-France

| Pays de la Loire

| Picardy

| Hauts-de-France

| Poitou-Charentes

| Nouvelle-Aquitaine

; Notes