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Entry for Romania in ISO 3166-2
ISO 3166-2:RO
is the entry for
Romania
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 Romania, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for
41 departments and 1 municipality
. The municipality
Bucharest
is the capital of the country and has special status equal to the departments.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is
RO
, the
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
code of Romania. The second part is either of the following:
- one letter: municipality
- two letters: departments
The letters are currently used in
vehicle registration plates
.
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).
Subdivision names are sorted in
Romanian alphabetical
order: a, ?, a, b-i, i, j-s, ?, t, ?, u-z.
Click on the button in the header to sort each column.
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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Code/Subdivision change
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Newsletter I-1
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2000-06-21
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Correction of spelling mistake of subdivision category in header
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Newsletter I-4
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2002-12-10
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Addition of one department. Subdivision categories in header re-sorted
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Subdivisions added:
RO-IF
Ilfov
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See also
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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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- a
Changed from TP
- b
Changed from YU
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