ISO 3166-2:PK

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ISO 3166-2:PK is the entry for Pakistan 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.

Contents

Currently for Pakistan, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 1 federal capital territory, 4 provinces, and 2 Pakistan administered areas. The Islamabad Capital Territory contains the capital of the country Islamabad and has special status equal to the provinces and territory.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is PK, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Pakistan. The second part is two letters.

Current codes

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

ISO 639-1 codes are used to represent subdivision names in the following administrative languages:

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CodeSubdivision name (ur)
(BGN/PCGN 2007)
Subdivision name (ur) [note 1] Subdivision name (en)Subdivision category
PK-IS Islāmābād وفاقی دارالحکومتIslamabadfederal capital territory
PK-BA Balōchistān بلوچستانBalochistanprovince
PK-KP Khaībar Pakhtūnkhwā خیبر پختونخواKhyber Pakhtunkhwaprovince
PK-PB Panjāb پنجابPunjabprovince
PK-SD Sindh سِنْدھSindhprovince
PK-JK Āzād Jammūñ o Kashmīr آزاد جموں و کشمیرAzad Jammu and Kashmir
(local variant is AJ&K)
Pakistan administered area
PK-GB Gilgit-Baltistān گلگت بلتستانGilgit-BaltistanPakistan administered area
  1. For reference only, Urdu in Urdu script is not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.

Former codes

CodeSubdivision name (en)Subdivision category
PK-TA Federally Administered Tribal Areas territory

Changes

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:

NewsletterDate issuedDescription of change in newsletterCode/Subdivision change
Newsletter II-3 2011-12-13
(corrected
2011-12-15)
Name change, language readjustment and source list update.Codes:
PK-NW North-West Frontier → PK-KP Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
PK-NA Northern Areas → PK-GB Gilgit-Baltistan
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2015-11-27Addition of romanization system for urd
2017-11-23Change of spelling of category name from ilaqa to ‘alāqahilaqa, from suba to sūbah, from wafaqi dar-ul-hakumat ka ilaqa to wafāqī dār al ḩikūmat ‘alāqah; change of subdivision name of PK-JK (eng & urd); addition of local variation of PK-JK in eng; update List Source(TBD)
2019-11-22Deletion of territory PK-TA; Update List Source(TBD)

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