ISO 3166-2:KP is the entry for North Korea (officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) 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 North Korea, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two metropolitan cities, one capital city, one special city, and nine provinces. All of them except the metropolitan city are province-level subdivisions. The three special administrative regions, i.e. the Kaesong Industrial Region, the Mount Kumgang Tourist Region, and the Sinuiju Special Administrative Region, are not listed.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of North Korea. The second part is two digits:
- 01: capital city
- 02–10: provinces
- 13: special city
- 14–15: metropolitan cities
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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{|class="wikitable sortable"
! Code
! Subdivision<br>name (ko)
! Subdivision<br>name (ko)
! Subdivision name (ko)
! Subdivision name (en)
! Subdivision category
|-
|||Chagang-do||Jakangto||||Chagang||province
|-
|||Hamgyǒng-bukto||Hamkyeongpukto||
||North Hamgyong||province
|-
|||Hamgyǒng-namdo||Hamkyeongnamto||||||province
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|||Hwanghae-bukto||Hwanghaipukto||||North Hwanghae||province
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|||Hwanghae-namdo||Hwanghainamto||||South Hwanghae||province
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|||Kaesŏng||Kaeseong||||Kaesong||
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|||Kangwǒn-do||Kangweonto||||Kangwon||province
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|||Namp’o||Nampho||남포||Nampo||metropolitan city
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|||P'yǒngan-bukto||Phyeonganpukto||||North Pyongan||province
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|||P'yǒngan-namdo||Phyeongannamto||||South Pyongan||province
|-
|||P'yǒngyang||Phyeongyang||||Pyongyang||capital city
|-
|||Rasǒn<br>
|Raseon||<br>
|Rason||special city
|-
|||Ryanggang-do||Ryangkangto||||Ryanggang||province
|}
; Notes
Changes
The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:
{| class="wikitable"
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! Effective date of change
! Short description of change (en)
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| 2017-11-23
| Change of spelling of KP-10, KP-13 (McCune-Reischauer, 1939); addition of metropolitan city KP-14; update List Source.
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| 2014-12-18
| Deletion of the space between "de" and the parenthesis in the short French name lower case.
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| 2010-02-19
| Administrative update, replacement of alphabetical characters with numeric characters in second code element
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| 2022-11-29
| Addition of metropolitan city KP-15; Update List Source
|}
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. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.
{| class="wikitable"
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! Newsletter
! Date issued
! Description of change in newsletter
! Code/Subdivision change
|-
| id="I-4" | [https://web.archive.org/web/20081218103210/http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_3166-2_newsletter_i-4_en.pdf ]
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| Addition of one special city. Subdivision categories in header re-sorted
| style=white-space:nowrap | Subdivisions added:<br /> Najin Sonbong-si
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| id="I-6" | [https://web.archive.org/web/20120112041245/http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_3166-2_newsletter_i-6_en.pdf ]
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| Spelling correction in header of list source
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| 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 ]
| <br /> (corrected<br /> )
| Administrative update, replacement of alphabetical characters with numeric characters in second code element
| style=white-space:nowrap | Subdivisions deleted:<br /> Kaesong-si<br /> Nampo-si<br /> Codes:<br /> format changed (see below)
|}
Codes changed in Newsletter II-1
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
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! Before
! After
! Subdivision name
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| Chagang-do
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| Hamgyongbuk-do
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| Hamgyongnam-do
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| Hwanghaebuk-do
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| Hwanghaenam-do
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| Kangwon-do
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| Pyonganbuk-do
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| Pyongannam-do
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| Yanggang-do
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| Najin Sonbong-si
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| Pyongyang-si
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See also
- Subdivisions of North Korea
- FIPS region codes of North Korea
- Neighbouring countries: CN, KR, RU
External links
- ISO Online Browsing Platform: KP
- Provinces of North Korea, Statoids.com