ISO 3166-2:KW

ISO 3166-2:KW is the entry for Kuwait 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 Kuwait, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 6 governorates .

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is KW , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Kuwait. The second part is two letters.

Current codes [ edit ]

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 ( ar ) (BGN/PCGN 1956)	Local variant	Subdivision name ( ar ) ^{[note 1]}	Subdivision name ( en ) ^{[note 2]}
KW-AH	Al A?mad?		???????	Ahmadi
KW-FA	Al Farw?n?yah		?????????	Farwaniya
KW-JA	Al Jahr?’		???????	Jahra
KW-KU	Al ‘??imah	Al Kuwayt	???????	Kuwait
KW-HA	?awall?		????	Hawalli
KW-MU	Mub?rak al Kab?r		????? ??????	Mubarak Al-Kabeer

^ For reference only, Arabic name in Arabic script not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
^ For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.

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:

Edition/Newsletter	Date issued	Description of change in newsletter	Code/Subdivision change
ISO 3166-2:2007	2007-12-13	Second edition of ISO 3166-2 (this change was not announced in a newsletter) ^[1]	Subdivisions added: KW-MU Mub?rak al Kab?r
Newsletter II-3	2011-12-13 (corrected 2011-12-15 )	Administrative name update and list source update.