ISO 3166-2:GN

Main article: 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:

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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Governorates and special zone

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

Code Subdivision name In administrative region
GN-BE Beyla N
GN-BF Boffa B
GN-BK Boké B
GN-CO Coyah D
GN-DB Dabola F
GN-DL Dalaba M
GN-DI Dinguiraye F
GN-DU Dubréka D
GN-FA Faranah F
GN-FO Forécariah D
GN-FR Fria B
GN-GA Gaoual B
GN-GU Guékédou N
GN-KA Kankan K
GN-KE Kérouané K
GN-KD Kindia D
GN-KS Kissidougou F
GN-KB Koubia L
GN-KN Koundara B
GN-KO Kouroussa K
GN-LA Labé L
GN-LE Lélouma L
GN-LO Lola N
GN-MC Macenta N
GN-ML Mali L
GN-MM Mamou M
GN-MD Mandiana K
GN-NZ Nzérékoré N
GN-PI Pita M
GN-SI Siguiri K
GN-TE Télimélé D
GN-TO Tougué L
GN-YO Yomou N

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-KDGN-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

  1. "Statoid Newsletter January 2008". Statoids.com.

External links

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