Entry for Guinea in ISO 3166-2
ISO 3166-2:GN is the entry for Guinea 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 Guinea, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:
The governorate Conakry is the capital of the country and has special status equal to the administrative regions.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is GN , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Guinea. The second part is either of the following:
one letter: administrative regions and governorate
two letters: prefectures
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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Administrative regions and governorate
Code
Subdivision name (fr )
Subdivision category
GN-B
Boké
administrative region
GN-F
Faranah
administrative region
GN-K
Kankan
administrative region
GN-D
Kindia
administrative region
GN-L
Labé
administrative region
GN-M
Mamou
administrative region
GN-N
Nzérékoré
administrative region
GN-C
Conakry
governorate
Prefectures
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:
Edition/Newsletter
Date issued
Description of change in newsletter
Code/Subdivision change
Newsletter I-2
2002-05-21
One governorate changed into a city (new subdivision level). One code corrected
Codes: (to correct duplicate use) Koundara : GN-KD → GN-KN
ISO 3166-2:2007
2007-12-13
Second edition of ISO 3166-2 (this change was not announced in a newsletter) [1]
Newsletter II-1
2010-02-03 (corrected 2010-02-19 )
Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, deletion of the generic term in subdivision names
See also
References
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