ISO 3166-2:KR is the entry for South Korea (officially the 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 South Korea, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for one special city, six metropolitan cities, seven provinces, two special self-governing provinces and one special self-governing city. All of them are province-level subdivisions.
Each code consists of two parts separated by a hyphen. The first part is , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of South Korea. The second part is two digits:
- 11: special city
- 26–31: metropolitan cities
- 41, 43–48: provinces
- 42, 49: special self-governing provinces
- 50: special self-governing city
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"
! rowspan="2" | Code
! colspan="2" | Subdivision (ko)<br />(National 2000)
! colspan="2" | Subdivision (ko)
! rowspan="2" | Subdivision<br>name<br>(en)
! rowspan="2" | Subdivision<br>category
|-
!Name
!Local variant
!Name
!Local variant
|-
|||||Busan||
|||Busan||metropolitan city
|-
|||||Chungbuk||
|||North Chungcheong||province
|-
|||||Chungnam||
|||||province
|-
|||||Daegu||
|||Daegu||metropolitan city
|-
|||||Daejeon||
|||Daejeon||metropolitan city
|-
|||||Gangwon||
|||Gangwon||
|-
|||||Gwangju||
|||Gwangju||metropolitan city
|-
|||||Gyeonggi||
|||Gyeonggi||province
|-
|||||Gyeongbuk||
|||North Gyeongsang||province
|-
|||||Gyeongnam||
|||South Gyeongsang||province
|-
|||||Incheon||
|||Incheon||metropolitan city
|-
|||||Jeju||
|||Jeju||special self-governing province
|-
|||||Jeonbuk||
|||North Jeolla||province
|-
|||||Jeonnam||
|||South Jeolla||province
|-
||||| ||
| ||Sejong||special self-governing city
|-
|||||Seoul||
|||Seoul||special city
|-
|||||Ulsan||
|||Ulsan||metropolitan city
|}
; Notes