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Entry for Guinea-Bissau in ISO 3166-2
ISO 3166-2:GW
is the entry for
Guinea-Bissau
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-Bissau, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:
The autonomous sector
Bissau
is the capital of the country and has special status equal to the regions.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is
GW
, the
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
code of Guinea-Bissau. The second part is either of the following:
- one letter: provinces
- two letters: autonomous sector and regions
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).
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Provinces
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- Notes
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For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
Autonomous sector and regions
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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:
| Newsletter
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Date issued
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Description of change in newsletter
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| Newsletter II-1
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2010-02-03
(corrected
2010-02-19
)
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Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element
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| Online Browsing Platform (OBP)
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2020-11-24
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Change of subdivision name of GW-BL; Addition of local variation of GW-BS; Update List Source
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See also
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External links
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ISO 3166
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Changed from TP
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