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Entry for Pakistan in ISO 3166-2
ISO 3166-2:PK
is the entry for
Pakistan
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 Pakistan, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for
1 federal capital territory, 4 provinces, and 2 Pakistan administered areas
. The
Islamabad Capital Territory
contains the capital of the country
Islamabad
and has special status equal to the provinces and territory.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is
PK
, the
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
code of Pakistan. The second part is two letters.
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).
ISO 639-1
codes are used to represent subdivision names in the following
administrative languages
:
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Code
|
Subdivision name (
ur
)
(BGN/PCGN 2007)
|
Subdivision name (
ur
)
[note 1]
|
Subdivision name (
en
)
|
Subdivision category
|
PK-JK
|
?z?d Jamm?n o Kashm?r
|
???? ???? ? ?????
|
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
(local variant: AJ&K)
|
Pakistan administered area
|
PK-BA
|
Bal?chist?n
|
????????
|
Balochistan
|
province
|
PK-GB
|
Gilgit-Baltist?n
|
???? ???????
|
Gilgit-Baltistan
|
Pakistan administered area
|
PK-IS
|
Isl?m?b?d
|
????? ??????????
|
Islamabad
|
federal capital territory
|
PK-KP
|
Kha?bar Pakht?nkhw?
|
???? ????????
|
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
|
province
|
PK-PB
|
Panj?b
|
?????
|
Punjab
|
province
|
PK-SD
|
Sindh
|
??????
|
Sindh
|
province
|
- Notes
- ^
For reference only, Urdu name in Urdu script not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
Former codes
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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
|
Description of change in newsletter
|
Code/Subdivision change
|
Newsletter II-3
|
2011-12-13
(corrected
2011-12-15
)
|
Name change, language readjustment and source list update.
|
Codes:
PK-NW
North-West Frontier →
PK-KP
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
PK-NA
Northern Areas →
PK-GB
Gilgit-Baltistan
|
Online Browsing
Platform (OBP)
|
2015-11-27
|
Addition of romanization system for urd
|
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2017-11-23
|
Change of spelling of category name from ilaqa to ‘al?qahilaqa, from suba to s?bah, from wafaqi dar-ul-hakumat ka ilaqa to waf?q? d?r al ?ik?mat ‘al?qah; change of subdivision name of PK-JK (eng & urd); addition of local variation of PK-JK in eng; update List Source
|
(TBD)
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2019-11-22
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Deletion of territory PK-TA; Update List Source
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(TBD)
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See also
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External links
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ISO 3166
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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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- a
Changed from TP
- b
Changed from YU
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