ISO 3166-2:LK

Main article: ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2:LK is the entry for Sri Lanka 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 Sri Lanka, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is LK, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the Sri Lanka. The second part is either of the following:

For the districts, the first digit is the second part of the ISO 3166-2 code of the province where the district is in.

Current codes

Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).

ISO 639-1 codes are used to represent subdivision names in the following administrative languages:

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Provinces

Code Subdivision name (en) Subdivision name (si) Subdivision name (ta)
LK-1 Western Province Basnāhira paḷāta Mel mākāṇam
LK-2 Central Province Madhyama paḷāta Mattiya mākāṇam
LK-3 Southern Province Dakuṇu paḷāta Tĕṉ mākāṇam
LK-4 Northern Province Uturu paḷāta Vaṭakku mākāṇam
LK-5 Eastern Province Næ̆gĕnahira paḷāta Kil̮akku mākāṇam
LK-6 North Western Province Vayamba paḷāta Vaṭamel mākāṇam
LK-7 North Central Province Uturumæ̆da paḷāta Vaṭamattiya mākāṇam
LK-8 Uva Province Ūva paḷāta Ūvā mākāṇam
LK-9 Sabaragamuwa Province Sabaragamuva paḷāta Chappirakamuva mākāṇam

Districts

Code Subdivision name (en) Subdivision name (si) Subdivision name (ta) Parent subdivision[Note 1]
LK-11 Colombo Kŏḷamba Kŏl̮umpu LK-1
LK-12 Gampaha Gampaha Kampahā LK-1
LK-13 Kalutara Kaḷutara Kaḷuttuṟai LK-1
LK-21 Kandy Mahanuvara Kaṇṭi LK-2
LK-22 Matale Mātale Māttaḷai LK-2
LK-23 Nuwara Eliya Nuvara Ĕliya Nuvarĕliyā LK-2
LK-31 Galle Gālla Kāli LK-3
LK-32 Matara Mātara Māttaṛai LK-3
LK-33 Hambantota Hambantŏṭa Ampāntōṭṭai LK-3
LK-41 Jaffna Yāpanaya Yāl̮ppāṇam LK-4
LK-42 Kilinochchi Kilinŏchchi Kiḷinochchi LK-4
LK-43 Mannar Mannārama Maṉṉār LK-4
LK-44 Vavuniya Vavuniyāva Vavuṉiyā LK-4
LK-45 Mullaittivu Mulativ Mullaittīvu LK-4
LK-51 Batticaloa Maḍakalapuva Maṭṭakkaḷappu LK-5
LK-52 Ampara Ampāra Ampāṟai LK-5
LK-53 Trincomalee Trikuṇāmalaya Tirukŏṇamalai LK-5
LK-61 Kurunegala Kuruṇægala Kurunākal LK-6
LK-62 Puttalam Puttalama Puttaḷam LK-6
LK-71 Anuradhapura Anurādhapura Anurātapuram LK-7
LK-72 Polonnaruwa Pŏḷŏnnaruva Pŏlaṉṉaṛuvai LK-7
LK-81 Badulla Badulla Patuḷai LK-8
LK-82 Monaragala Mŏṇarāgala Mŏṉarākalai LK-8
LK-91 Ratnapura Ratnapura Irattiṉapuri LK-9
LK-92 Kegalla Kægalla Kekālai LK-9
  1. For most districts, the parent subdivision codes are listed wrong in the ISO Online Browsing Platform. They are corrected in this list.

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. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.

Newsletter Date issued Description of change in newsletter
Newsletter II-1 2010-02-03
(corrected
2010-02-19)
Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, addition of names in administrative languages

The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:

Effective date of change Short description of change (en)
2014-12-18 Alignment of the French short name lower case with UNTERM; update of the remarks in French
2012-08-02 Add administrative language
2010-02-19 Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, addition of names in administrative languages

See also

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