ISO 3166-2:PG

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ISO 3166-2:PG is the entry for Papua New Guinea 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 Papua New Guinea, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 1 district, 20 provinces and 1 autonomous region. The capital of the country Port Moresby forms the National Capital District and has special status equal to the provinces.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is PG, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Papua New Guinea. The second part is three letters.

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 (en)Subdivision name (tpi) [note 1] Subdivision category
PG-NSBFlag of Bougainville.svg  Bougainville Bogenvilautonomous region
PG-CPMFlag of Central Province.svg  Central Sentralprovince
PG-CPKFlag of Chimbu.svg  Chimbu Simbuprovince
PG-EBRFlag of East New Britain.svg  East New Britain Is Niu Britenprovince
PG-ESWFlag of East Sepik.png  East Sepik Is Sepikprovince
PG-EHGFlag of Eastern Highlands.svg  Eastern Highlands Isten Hailansprovince
PG-EPWFlag of Enga.png  Enga Engaprovince
PG-GPKFlag of Gulf Province.png  Gulf Galfprovince
PG-HLAFlag of Hela.svg  Hela Helaprovince
PG-JWKFlag of Jiwaka.svg  Jiwaka Jiwakaprovince
PG-MPMFlag of Madang.svg  Madang Madangprovince
PG-MRLFlag of Manus.svg  Manus Manusprovince
PG-MBAFlag of Milne Bay.svg  Milne Bay Milen Beprovince
PG-MPLFlag of Morobe.png  Morobe Morobeprovince
PG-NCDFlag of NCD.svg  National Capital District (Port Moresby)Pot Mosbidistrict
PG-NIKFlag of New Ireland.svg  New Ireland Niu Ailanprovince
PG-NPPFlag of Flag Oro new.png  Northern Oroprovince
PG-SHMFlag of Southern Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea).svg  Southern Highlands Sauten Hailansprovince
PG-WBKFlag of West New Britain.svg  West New Britain Wes Niu Britenprovince
PG-SANFlag of Sandaun.svg  West Sepik Sandaunprovince
PG-WPDFlag of Western Province.svg  Western Westenprovince
PG-WHMFlag of Western Highlands.svg  Western Highlands Westen Hailansprovince
Notes
  1. ↑ For reference only, Tok Pisin name not included in the ISO 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.

NewsletterDate issuedDescription of change in newsletterCode/Subdivision change
Newsletter II-3 2011-12-13
(corrected
2011-12-15)		Administrative readjustment, local generic administrative term addition and source list and source code update.Codes:
PG-NSA North Solomons (province) → PG-NSB Bougainville (autonomous region)
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Platform (OBP) 		2013-05-10UN notification of full name
2014-03-03Add "the" before the English full name
2014-11-03Add two provinces PG-HLA and PG-JWK; change subdivision name of PG-SAN; update List SourceSubdivisions added:
PG-HLA Hela
PG-JWK Jiwaka
Name changed:
PG-SAN Sandaun [West Sepik] → West Sepik

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