ISO 3166-2:MY is the entry for Malaysia 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 Malaysia, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for three federal territories and 13 states .

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is MY , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Malaysia. The second part is two digits:

• 01?13: states
• 14?16: federal territories

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 ( ms )	Subdivision category
MY-01	Johor	state
MY-02	Kedah	state
MY-03	Kelantan	state
MY-04	Melaka	state
MY-05	Negeri Sembilan	state
MY-06	Pahang	state
MY-08	Perak	state
MY-09	Perlis	state
MY-07	Pulau Pinang	state
MY-12	Sabah	state
MY-13	Sarawak	state
MY-10	Selangor	state
MY-11	Terengganu	state
MY-14	Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur	federal territory
MY-15	Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan	federal territory
MY-16	Wilayah Persekutuan Putrajaya	federal territory

Changes [ edit ]

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:

Codes changed in Newsletter I-5 [ edit ]

The letters in the former codes are currently used in vehicle registration plates , except Sabah and Sarawak which use S and Q respectively.

Before	After	Subdivision name ( ms )
MY-W	MY-14	Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
MY-L	MY-15	Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan
MY-J	MY-01	Johor
MY-K	MY-02	Kedah
MY-D	MY-03	Kelantan
MY-M	MY-04	Melaka
MY-N	MY-05	Negeri Sembilan
MY-C	MY-06	Pahang
MY-A	MY-08	Perak
MY-R	MY-09	Perlis
MY-P	MY-07	Pulau Pinang
MY-SA	MY-12	Sabah
MY-SK	MY-13	Sarawak
MY-B	MY-10	Selangor
MY-T	MY-11	Terengganu

See also [ edit ]

• Subdivisions of Malaysia
• FIPS region codes of Malaysia
• Neighbouring countries: BN , ID , TH

External links [ edit ]

• ISO Online Browsing Platform: MY
• States of Malaysia , Statoids.com