ISO 3166-2:CS

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ISO 3166-2:CS was the entry for Serbia and Montenegro 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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Serbia and Montenegro was officially assigned the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code CS before it was dissolved in 2006, and the entry was deleted from ISO 3166-2 as a result. The two republics, Montenegro (Montenegrin : Crna Gora) and Serbia (Serbian : Srbija), became independent and are now officially assigned the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes ME and RS respectively.

Before 2003, the name of the country was Yugoslavia, and it was officially assigned the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code YU.

Note that while the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code CS was used to represent Czechoslovakia before it was dissolved in 1993, this predated the first publication of ISO 3166–2 in 1998.

Changes

The following changes to the entry had 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 I-1 2000-06-21Update of the source information
Newsletter I-5 2003-09-05Change of ISO 3166-1 country code element and country name
(in accordance with ISO 3166-1 Newsletter V-8)
Codes:
YU-CS-
Newsletter I-8 2007-04-17Deletion of a former country
(in accordance with ISO 3166-1 Newsletter V-12)
Subdivisions deleted:
2 republics, 2 autonomous provinces (see below)

Codes deleted in Newsletter I-8

Former codeSubdivision name (sr)
(UN III/11 1977)
Subdivision category
CS-CGFlag of Montenegro (1993-2004).svg Crna Gora republic
CS-SRFlag of Serbia (1992-2004).svg Srbija republic
Former codeSubdivision name (sr)
(UN III/11 1977)
Subdivision categoryIn republic
CS-KM  Kosovo-Metohija autonomous province SR
CS-VOFlag of Vojvodina.svg  Vojvodina autonomous province SR

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