ISO 3166-2:KP

ISO 3166-2:KP is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to North Korea.

It assigns codes to 9 provinces and 4 special cities. (One of these cities has since been reclassified as an Industrial Region, and codes have not yet been assigned to 2 other special administrative regions.)

Each two-part code consists of the ISO 3166-1 code for North Korea (KP) and a 3-character sub-code, hyphenated together.

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Note: Names are not spelled according to the ISO list, but to the official McCune-Reischauer Romanization as used in North Korea.

Sorted by Code
KP-CHA Chagang-do
KP-HAB Hamgyŏng-bukto
KP-HAN Hamgyŏng-namdo
KP-HWB Hwanghae-bukto
KP-HWN Hwanghae-namdo
KP-KAN Kangwŏn-do
KP-KAE Kaesŏng (Directly Governed City)
KP-NAJ Rasŏn (Directly Governed City)
KP-NAM Nampo (Directly Governed City)
KP-PYB P'yŏngan-bukto
KP-PYN P'yŏngan-namdo
KP-PYO P'yŏngyang (Special City)
KP-YAN Ryanggang-do (Yanggang-do)
Sorted by Name
Provinces
KP-CHA Chagang-do
KP-HAB Hamgyŏng-bukto
KP-HAN Hamgyŏng-namdo
KP-HWB Hwanghae-bukto
KP-HWN Hwanghae-namdo
KP-KAN Kangwŏn-do
KP-PYB P'yŏngan-bukto
KP-PYN P'yŏngan-namdo
KP-YAN Ryanggang-do (Yanggang-do)
Special and Directly Governed Cities
KP-KAE Kaesŏng (DGC)
KP-NAJ Rasŏn (DGC)
KP-NAM Nampo (DGC)
KP-PYO P'yŏngyang (SC)
Unencoded special administrative regions
  Sinŭiju Special Administrative Region (formed in 2002)
  Kŭmgang-san Tourist Region (formed in 2002)
† now a part of Hwanghae-bukto, as of 2003
‡ now a part of P'yŏngan-namdo, as of 2004

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