ISO 3166-2:BH
ISO 3166-2:BH is the entry for Bahrain 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 Bahrain, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for four governorates. Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Bahrain. The second part is two digits.
Current codes
Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.Click on the button in the header to sort each column.
| Code | Subdivision name | Local variant | Subdivision name | Subdivision name |
| Al ‘Āşimah | Al Manāmah | محافظة العاصمة | Capital Governorate | |
| Al Janūbīyah | المحافظة الجنوبية | Southern Governorate | ||
| Al Muḩarraq | محافظة المحرق | Muharraq Governorate | ||
| Ash Shamālīyah | المحافظة الشمالية | Northern Governorate |
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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.| Newsletter | Date issued | Description of change in newsletter | Code/Subdivision change |
| Modification of the administrative structure | Subdivision layout: 12 regions → 5 governorates |
The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:
| Effective date of change | Short description of change |
| 2015-11-27 | Change of subdivision name for BH-13; deletion of a governorate BH-16; update List Source |