ISO 3166-2:KP

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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.

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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 KP, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of North Korea. The second part is two digits:

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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CodeSubdivision
name (ko)(McCune-Reischauer 1939)
Subdivision
name (ko)(KPS 11080:2002)
Subdivision name (ko) [note 1] Subdivision name (en)
[note 2]
Subdivision category
KP-04 Chagang-do Jakangto자강도Chagangprovince
KP-09 Hamgyǒng-bukto Hamkyeongpukto함경북도North Hamgyongprovince
KP-08 Hamgyǒng-namdo Hamkyeongnamto함경남도South Hamgyongprovince
KP-06 Hwanghae-bukto Hwanghaipukto황해북도North Hwanghaeprovince
KP-05 Hwanghae-namdo Hwanghainamto황해남도South Hwanghaeprovince
KP-15 Kaesŏng Kaeseong개성시Kaesongmetropolitan city
KP-07 Kangwǒn-do Kangweonto강원도Kangwonprovince
KP-14 Namp’o Nampho남포시Nampometropolitan city
KP-03 P'yǒngan-bukto Phyeonganpukto평안북도North Pyonganprovince
KP-02 P'yǒngan-namdo Phyeongannamto평안남도South Pyonganprovince
KP-01 P'yǒngyang Phyeongyang평양시Pyongyangcapital city
KP-13 Rasǒn
(Local variant: Najin Sǒnbong)
Raseon라선시Rasonspecial city
KP-10 Ryanggang-do Ryangkangto량강도Ryanggangprovince
Notes
  1. For reference only, Korean name in Korean script not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
  2. For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.

Changes

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

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

NewsletterDate issuedDescription of change in newsletterCode/Subdivision change
Newsletter I-4 2002-12-10Addition of one special city. Subdivision categories in header re-sortedSubdivisions added:
KP-NAJ Najin Sonbong-si
Newsletter I-6 2004-03-08Spelling correction in header of list source
Newsletter II-1 2010-02-03
(corrected
2010-02-19)
Administrative update, replacement of alphabetical characters with numeric characters in second code elementSubdivisions deleted:
KP-KAE Kaesong-si
KP-NAM Nampo-si
Codes:
format changed (see below)

Codes changed in Newsletter II-1

BeforeAfterSubdivision name
KP-CHAKP-04 Chagang-do
KP-HABKP-09 Hamgyongbuk-do
KP-HANKP-08 Hamgyongnam-do
KP-HWBKP-06 Hwanghaebuk-do
KP-HWNKP-05 Hwanghaenam-do
KP-KANKP-07 Kangwon-do
KP-PYBKP-03 Pyonganbuk-do
KP-PYNKP-02 Pyongannam-do
KP-YANKP-10 Yanggang-do
KP-NAJKP-13 Najin Sonbong-si
KP-PYOKP-01 Pyongyang-si

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