ISO 3166-2:BJ
ISO 3166-2:BJ is the entry for Benin 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 Benin, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 12 departments.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Benin. 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.Click on the button in the header to sort each column.
| Code | Subdivision name |
| Alibori | |
| Atacora | |
| Atlantique | |
| Borgou | |
| Collines | |
| Couffo | |
| Donga | |
| Littoral | |
| Mono | |
| Ouémé | |
| Plateau | |
| Zou |
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 |
| New subdivision layout: 12 departments. Six with previous names and six with new names | Subdivisions added: Alibori Collines Donga Kouffo Littoral Plateau |
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 spelling of BJ-AK, BJ-KO; update List Source |