Entry for the Bahamas in ISO 3166-2
ISO 3166-2:BS is the entry for the Bahamas 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 the Bahamas, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 1 island (New Providence ) and 31 districts .
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is BS , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the Bahamas. The second part is two letters.
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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Changes
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 II-2
2010-06-30
Update of the administrative structure and of the list source
Subdivision layout: 21 districts (see below) → 32 districts (mistakenly listed as 31 districts in newsletter)
Newsletter II-3
2011-12-13 (corrected 2011-12-15 )
Correction of NL II-2 for toponyms and typographical errors, one deletion and source list update.
Subdivisions deleted: BS-GT Green Turtle Cay
Online Browsing Platform (OBP)
2018-11-26
Addition of island BS-NP; Addition of Remark; Update List Source
Subdivision added: BS-NP New Providence
Codes before Newsletter II-2
See also
External links
ISO 3166 – codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions
ISO 3166-1 – country codes ISO 3166-2 – country subdivision codes
ISO 3166-3 – codes for former names of countries
a changed from TP
b changed from YU