ISO 3166-2:BD


ISO 3166-2:BD is the entry for Bangladesh in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization, which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
Currently for Bangladesh, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Bangladesh. The second part is either of the following:
  • one letter : divisions
  • two digits : districts

    Current codes

Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.
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Divisions

Districts

; Notes

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. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.
NewsletterDate issuedDescription of change in newsletterCode/Subdivision change
New list source. One division added. 31 regions cancelled. Allocation of districts to divisions instead of regions. Correction of one spelling errorSubdivisions added:
Sylhet bibhag
Subdivisions deleted:
21 regions '

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Country name romanization adjustment, first level prefix addition, deletion of generic terms, addition of administrative division and source list updateSubdivisions added:
Rangpur
Codes:
Barisal : →
Chittagong : →
Dhaka : →
Khulna : →
Rajshahi : →
Sylhet : →

The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:
Effective date of changeShort description of change
2012-02-15Correct local short name and align with ISO 3166-2
2016-11-15Change of spelling of BD-24, BD-25, BD-29, BD-45; change of parent subdivision of BD-21, BD-34, BD-41, BD-55, BD-57; addition of parent subdivision BD-H; addition of an asterisk to divisions; update list source
2018-11-26Correction of the romanization system label
2020-11-24Change of spelling of BD-03, BD-06, BD-08, BD-10, BD-22, BD-A, BD-B; Addition of local variation for BD-10, BD-B; Correction of the Code Source

Codes deleted in Newsletter I-2