Entry for the United Kingdom in ISO 3166-2
ISO 3166-2:GB
is the entry for the
United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 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
.
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The codes and structures used are provided to the ISO by
British Standards
and the
Office for National Statistics
.
Currently for the United Kingdom, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for the following subdivisions:
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is
GB
, the
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
code of the United Kingdom. The second part is three letters, which is the
British Standard
BS 6879
three-letter code of the subdivision.
Though
GB
is the United Kingdom's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code,
UK
is
exceptionally reserved
for the United Kingdom on the request of the country. Its main usage is the
.uk
internet
ccTLD
and, on 28 September 2021,
UK
replaced
GB
as the official country code on
car registration plates
.
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Current codes
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Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).
BS 6879 gives alternative name forms in
Welsh
(cy) for some of the Welsh unitary authorities (together with alternative code elements). Since this part of ISO 3166 does not allow for duplicate coding of identical subdivisions, such alternative names in Welsh and code elements are shown for information purposes only in square brackets after the
English
name of the subdivision.
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Countries and province
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Wales was changed from being described as a
principality
to being described as a
country
in the December 2011 update to the standard. England and Scotland were maintained as
country
and Northern Ireland was maintained as
province
.
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Included for completeness
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The codes GB-EAW, GB-GBN, and GB-UKM are only mentioned in remark part 2 in the ISO website where they are "included for completeness".
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Second-level subdivisions
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Changes
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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.
The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:
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Effective date of change
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Short description of change (en)
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2022-11-29
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Deletion of two-tier county GB-NTH; Addition of unitary authority GB-NNH, GB-WNH; Change of category name from two-tier county to unitary authority for GB-BKM; Update List Source
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2022-03-03
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Correction of parent subdivision of GB-PEM
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2021-11-25
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Addition of subdivision categories country and province in eng & fra; Modification of remark part 2; Addition of country GB-ENG, GB-WLS, GB-SCT; Addition of province GB-NIR; Addition of parent subdivisions
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2020-11-24
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Deletion of GB-BMH, GB-POL; Addition of GB-BCP; Correction of spelling for GB-BFS, GB-DRS, GB-DUR, GB-MUL, GB-RCT, GB-SCB; Modification of remark, part 2; Update List Source
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2019-11-22
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Change of subdivision name of GB-ABC, GB-DRS; Modification of remark part 2; Update List Source
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2015-11-27
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Deletion of Northern Ireland district council areas GB-ANT, GB-ARD, GB-ARM, GB-BLA, GB-BLY, GB-BNB, GB-CKF, GB-CSR, GB-CLR, GB-CKT, GB-CGV, GB-DRY, GB-DOW, GB-DGN, GB-FER, GB-LRN, GB-LMV, GB-LSB, GB-MFT, GB-MYL, GB-NYM, GB-NTA, GB-NDN, GB-OMH, GB-STB; change of subdivision category from district council area to district GB-BFS; addition of Northern Ireland districts GB-ANN, GB-AND, GB-ABC, GB-CCG, GB-DRS, GB-FMO, GB-LBC, GB-MEA, GB-MUL, GB-NMD; update List Source
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2014-12-18
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Alignment of the English and French short names upper and lower case with UNTERM; update of the remarks in French
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2014-10-30
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Re-add GB-IOS
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2011-12-13
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NL II-2 correction for administrative name changes.
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2010-06-30
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Update and reorganization of the subdivision data and update of the list source
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See also
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References
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External links
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ISO 3166
? Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions
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ISO 3166-1
country codes
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ISO 3166-2
country subdivision codes
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ISO 3166-3
codes for former names of countries
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Changed from TP
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Changed from YU
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