ISO 3166-2:VN is the entry for Vietnam 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 Vietnam, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 58 provinces and 5 municipalities . The municipalities have special status equal to the provinces.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is VN , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Vietnam. The second part either of the following:

• two digits: provinces
• two letters: municipalities

Current codes [ edit ]

Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).

Click on the button in the header to sort each column. Names are sorted according to the Vietnamese alphabet : a, ?, a, b-d, đ, e, e, f-o, o, ?, p-u, ?, v-z (with alphabetization proceeding on a word-by-word basis, e.g. all names starting with Ha sort before all names with H?i).

Changes [ edit ]

The following changes to the entry have been announced by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.

See also [ edit ]

• Subdivisions of Vietnam
• FIPS region codes of Vietnam
• Neighbouring countries: CN , KH , LA

External links [ edit ]

• ISO Online Browsing Platform: VN
• Provinces of Vietnam , Statoids.com