ISO 3166-2:TW

ISO 3166-2:TW is the entry for Taiwan 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. Due to the political status of Taiwan in the United Nations, the ISO 3166-1 full name is Taiwan, Province of China.^[1]

The definition of ISO 3166-2:TW includes the divisions located in Taiwan (Formosa), Penghu (the Pescadores), Kinmen, Matzu and their subsidiary islands. Politically, these areas are governed by the Republic of China, including Taiwan Province, Fukien Province and several special municipalities. Currently ISO 3166-2:TW lists 13 districts, 3 municipalities, and 6 special municipalities.

Note that the districts (counties) and the municipalities (provincial cities) are part of the Taiwan Province and Fukien Province of the Republic of China, while the special municipalities are not part of the province. Since the streamlining of the Taiwan Province in 1998, these subdivisions are regarded as the principal subdivisions of Taiwan.

Format

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is TW, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Taiwan. The second part is three letters.
The divisions in the list are categorized in three types:
1. Districts: Romanized as hsien, translated to counties (縣). The divisions carry County (縣) in their official name.
2. Municipalities: Romanized as shih, translated to provincial cities (市). The divisions carry City (市) in their official name.
3. Special municipalities: Translated to special municipalities (直轄市). The divisions also carry City (市) in their official name.
Taiwan is also assigned the ISO 3166-2 code CN-71 under ISO 3166-2:CN (China), as the People's Republic of China considers it as a province of China.

Current codes

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

Code	Subdivision name	Subdivision category
TW-CHA	Changhua	district
TW-CYQ	Chiayi	district
TW-HSQ	Hsinchu	district
TW-HUA	Hualien	district
TW-ILA	Yilan	district
TW-KIN	Kinmen	district
TW-LIE	Lienchiang	district
TW-MIA	Miaoli	district
TW-NAN	Nantou	district
TW-PEN	Penghu	district
TW-PIF	Pingtung	district
TW-TTT	Taitung	district
TW-YUN	Yunlin	district
TW-CYI	Chiayi	municipality
TW-HSZ	Hsinchu	municipality
TW-KEE	Keelung	municipality
TW-KHH	Kaohsiung	special municipality
TW-NWT	New Taipei	special municipality
TW-TAO	Taoyuan	special municipality
TW-TNN	Tainan	special municipality
TW-TPE	Taipei	special municipality
TW-TXG	Taichung	special municipality

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/OBP	Date issued	Description of change in newsletter	Code/Subdivision change
Newsletter I-4	2002-12-10	Error correction: Duplicate use of six code elements corrected. Subdivision categories in header re-sorted	Codes: (to correct duplicate use) Chiayi (district): TW-CYI → TW-CYQ Hsinchu (district): TW-HSZ → TW-HSQ Kaohsiung (district): TW-KHH → TW-KHQ Taichung (district): TW-TXG → TW-TXQ Tainan (district): TW-TNN → TW-TNQ Taipei (district): TW-TPE → TW-TPQ
OBP	2015-11-27	Addition of category name for special municipality in zho; change of spelling of TW-ILA; deletion of districts TW-KHQ, TW-TNQ, TW-TPQ, TW-TXQ; addition of districts TW-KIN,TW-LIE and special municipality TW-NWT; change of subdivision category from municipalities to special municipalities for TW-TXG, TW-TNN; change of subdivision category from district to special municipality for TW-TAO; update List Source.	Subdivision added: Kinmen (district): TW-KIN Lienchiang (district): TW-LIE New Taipei (special municipality): TW-NWT Subdivision deleted: Kaohsiung (district): TW-KHQ Tainan (district): TW-TNQ Taipei (district): TW-TPQ Taichung (district): TW-TXQ Subdivision category changed: Taoyuan (TW-TAO): district → special municipality Tainan (TW-TNN): municipality → special municipality Taichung (TW-TXG): municipality → special municipality

References

↑ "Country names and code elements". ISO.

External links

ISO Online Browsing Platform: TW
Counties of Taiwan, Statoids.com

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