ISO 3166-2:KP

ISO 3166-2:KP is the entry for North Korea (officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) 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 North Korea, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two metropolitan cities, one capital city, one special city, and nine provinces. All of them except the metropolitan city are province-level subdivisions. The three special administrative regions, i.e. the Kaesong Industrial Region, the Mount Kumgang Tourist Region, and the Sinuiju Special Administrative Region, are not listed.

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

• 01: capital city
• 02–10: provinces
• 13: special city
• 14–15: metropolitan cities

Current codes

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 (ko) Template:NowrapTemplate:Efn	Subdivision name (ko) Template:Nowrap	Subdivision name (ko)Template:Efn	Subdivision name (en)Template:Efn	Subdivision category
Template:Mono	Chagang-do	Jakangto	자강도	Chagang	province
Template:Mono	Hamgyǒng-bukto	Hamkyeongpukto	함경북도	North Hamgyong	province
Template:Mono	Hamgyǒng-namdo	Hamkyeongnamto	함경남도	Template:Nowrap	province
Template:Mono	Hwanghae-bukto	Hwanghaipukto	황해북도	North Hwanghae	province
Template:Mono	Hwanghae-namdo	Hwanghainamto	황해남도	South Hwanghae	province
Template:Mono	Kaesŏng	Kaeseong	개성시	Kaesong	Template:Nowrap
Template:Mono	Kangwǒn-do	Kangweonto	강원도	Kangwon	province
Template:Mono	Namp’o	Nampho	남포시	Nampo	metropolitan city
Template:Mono	P'yǒngan-bukto	Phyeonganpukto	평안북도	North Pyongan	province
Template:Mono	P'yǒngan-namdo	Phyeongannamto	평안남도	South Pyongan	province
Template:Mono	P'yǒngyang	Phyeongyang	평양시	Pyongyang	capital city
Template:Mono	Rasǒn Template:Nowrap	Raseon	라선시	Rason	special city
Template:Mono	Ryanggang-do	Ryangkangto	량강도	Ryanggang	province

Notes

Changes

The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:

Effective date of change	Short description of change (en)
2017-11-23	Change of spelling of KP-10, KP-13 (McCune-Reischauer, 1939); addition of metropolitan city KP-14; update List Source.
2014-12-18	Deletion of the space between "de" and the parenthesis in the short French name lower case.
2010-02-19	Administrative update, replacement of alphabetical characters with numeric characters in second code element
2022-11-29	Addition of metropolitan city KP-15; Update List Source

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. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.

Newsletter	Date issued	Description of change in newsletter	Code/Subdivision change
Template:Nowrap	Template:Nowrap	Addition of one special city. Subdivision categories in header re-sorted	Subdivisions added: Template:Mono Najin Sonbong-si
Template:Nowrap	Template:Nowrap	Spelling correction in header of list source
Template:Nowrap	Template:Nowrap (corrected Template:Nowrap)	Administrative update, replacement of alphabetical characters with numeric characters in second code element	Subdivisions deleted: Template:Mono Kaesong-si Template:Mono Nampo-si Codes: format changed (see below)

See also

• Subdivisions of North Korea
• FIPS region codes of North Korea
• Neighbouring countries: CN, KR, RU

External links

• ISO Online Browsing Platform: KP
• Provinces of North Korea, Statoids.com