ISO 3166-2:TW

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ISO 3166-2:TW is the entry for Taiwan, [1] "Taiwan, Province of China", [2] or "Taiwan (Province of China)", [3] 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.

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ISO 3166-2:TW defines codes for the subdivisions of Taiwan located on the islands of Taiwan (Formosa), Penghu (Pescadores), Kinmen, Matsu (Lienchiang), and their subsidiary islands. These areas are de facto under the administration of the government of the Republic of China which resides in Taipei. The government of the People's Republic of China, which resides in Beijing, also claims these islands but considers ROC-held Fujian islands of Kinmen and Matsu to be within its Fujian Province, [4] not its nominal Taiwan Province (ISO 3166-2 code: CN-TW ).

Currently ISO 3166-2:TW lists 13 counties, 3 cities, and 6 special municipalities. Constitutionally the counties and cities are part of the ROC provinces of Taiwan and Fujian, but since the provincial governments were largely streamlined in 1998 these 22 subdivisions are regarded as the principal subdivisions of Republic of China (Taiwan).

Format

Current codes

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

ISO 3166-2:TW since 2015-11-27 ISO 3166-2-TW-2015-11-27.png
ISO 3166-2:TW since 2015-11-27
CodeSubdivision name (zh)
(conventional names)
Subdivision name (zh)
[note 1]
Subdivision category
TW-CHA Changhua 彰化county
TW-CYI Chiayi 嘉義city
TW-CYQ Chiayi 嘉義county
TW-HSZ Hsinchu 新竹city
TW-HSQ Hsinchu 新竹county
TW-HUA Hualien 花蓮county
TW-KHH Kaohsiung 高雄special municipality
TW-KEE Keelung 基隆city
TW-KIN Kinmen 金門county
TW-LIE Lienchiang 連江county
TW-MIA Miaoli 苗栗county
TW-NAN Nantou 南投county
TW-NWT New Taipei 新北special municipality
TW-PEN Penghu 澎湖county
TW-PIF Pingtung 屏東county
TW-TXG Taichung 臺中special municipality
TW-TNN Tainan 臺南special municipality
TW-TPE Taipei 臺北special municipality
TW-TTT Taitung 臺東county
TW-TAO Taoyuan 桃園special municipality
TW-ILA Yilan 宜蘭county
TW-YUN Yunlin 雲林county
Notes
  1. For reference only, Chinese name in Chinese script not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.

Changes

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.

Changes to ISO 3166-2:TW on 2002-12-10 when Kinmen and Matsu were not yet coded ISO 3166-2-TW-2002-12-10.png
Changes to ISO 3166-2:TW on 2002-12-10 when Kinmen and Matsu were not yet coded
Newsletter/OBPDate issuedDescription of change in newsletterCode/Subdivision change
Newsletter I-4 2002-12-10Error correction: Duplicate use of six code elements corrected. Subdivision categories in header re-sorted

Codes:(to correct duplicate use)

  • Chiayi (district): TW-CYITW-CYQ
  • Hsinchu (district): TW-HSZTW-HSQ
  • Kaohsiung (district): TW-KHHTW-KHQ
  • Taichung (district): TW-TXGTW-TXQ
  • Tainan (district): TW-TNNTW-TNQ
  • Taipei (district): TW-TPETW-TPQ
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2015-11-27Addition of category name for special municipality in zho; change of spelling of TW-ILA; deletion of districts TW-KHQ, TW-TNQ, TW-TPQ, TW-TXQ; addition of districts TW-KIN, TW-LIE and special municipality TW-NWT; change of subdivision category from municipalities to special municipalities for TW-TXG, TW-TNN; change of subdivision category from district to special municipality for TW-TAO; update List Source.

Subdivision added:

Subdivision deleted:

Subdivision category changed:

  • Taoyuan (TW-TAO): district → special municipality
  • Tainan (TW-TNN): municipality → special municipality
  • Taichung (TW-TXG): municipality → special municipality
2016-11-15Change of subdivision category from municipality to city and district to county; update List Source
  • (each) district → county
  • (each) municipality → city

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References

  1. "ISO 3166 — Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions: TW". International Organization for Standardization. Retrieved 2020-08-26. Local short name Taiwan
  2. "ISO 3166 — Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions: TW". International Organization for Standardization. Retrieved 2020-08-26. Short name TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA
  3. "ISO 3166 — Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions: TW". International Organization for Standardization. Retrieved 2020-08-26. Short name lower case Taiwan (Province of China)
  4. "中国的岛屿乡镇一览" [China's Insular Townships at a Glance] (in Simplified Chinese). Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China. 2011-08-23. Retrieved 2020-01-31. 六.福建省……连江县(台湾当局只控制了马祖列岛……)……金门县(全县台湾当局控制……)[ permanent dead link ]