ISO 3166-2:KP - Definition and Overview

The ISO 3166-2 standard for North Korea (ISO 3166-1: KP) assigns codes to 9 provinces and 4 special cities. (One of these cities has since been reclassified as an Industrial Region, and codes have not yet been assigned to 2 other special administrative regions.)

The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such, or anywhere where a short alphanumeric code can serve to clearly indicate a location in a more convenient and less ambiguous form than the full place name. US readers may wish to consider them as the equivalent of worldwide zip or postal codes. Within the Wikipedia, the codes from the country pages link to the pages for the locations they identify.

Code system: "KP-" + 3-character-alphabetic

Newsletters

• ISO 3166-2:2002-12-10
• ISO 3166-2:2004-03-08

Encoding list (13)

Note: Names are not spelled according to the ISO list, but to the official McCune-Reischauer Romanization as used in North Korea.

Provinces (9)

• KP-CHA Chagang-do
• KP-HAB Hamgyŏng-bukto
• KP-HAN Hamgyŏng-namdo
• KP-HWB Hwanghae-bukto
• KP-HWN Hwanghae-namdo
• KP-KAN Kangwŏn-do
• KP-PYB P'yŏngan-bukto
• KP-PYN P'yŏngan-namdo
• KP-YAN Ryanggang-do (Yanggang-do)

Special and Directly Governed Cities (4)

• KP-KAE Kaesŏng Directly Governed City (now a part of Hwanghae-bukto, as of 2003)
• KP-NAJ Rasŏn Directly Governed City
• KP-NAM Nampo Directly Governed City (now a part of P'yŏngan-namdo, as of 2004)
• KP-PYO P'yŏngyang Special City

Unencoded special administrative regions

• Shinŭiju Special Administrative Region (formed in 2002)
• Kŭmgang-san Tourist Region (formed in 2002)

See also

• Administrative divisions of North Korea
• ISO 3166-1, the reference table for all country codes, as used for domain names on the Internet.
• ISO 3166-2, the reference table for all country region codes.
• ISO 3166-2:KR, ISO codes for cities, regions, and provinces in South Korea