ISO 3166-2:SS

Main article: ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2:SS is the entry for South Sudan 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 Sudan, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 10 states.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is SS, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of South Sudan. 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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Code Subdivision name
SS-EC Central Equatoria
SS-EE Eastern Equatoria
SS-JG Jonglei
SS-LK Lakes
SS-BN Northern Bahr el Ghazal
SS-UY Unity
SS-NU Upper Nile
SS-WR Warrap
SS-BW Western Bahr el Ghazal
SS-EW Western Equatoria

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 Code/Subdivision change
Newsletter II-3 2011-12-13
(corrected
2011-12-15)
Administrative subdivisions addition. Subdivisions added:
10 states

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 Deletion of the space after the short English name lower case
2011-12-13 Addition of code and its administrative subdivisions to align ISO 3166-1 and ISO 3166-2.
2011-08-09 Assign code elements

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