ISO 3166-2:BY

ISO 3166-2:BY is the entry for Belarus 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 Belarus, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for six oblasts and one city. The city Minsk is the capital of the country and has special status equal to the oblasts.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Belarus. 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.
ISO 639-1 codes are used to represent subdivision names in the following administrative languages:

: Belarusian — Romanization system: BGN/PCGN [romanization of Belarusian|BGN/PCGN] 1979, UN X/6 2012
: Russian — Romanization system: BGN/PCGN 1947, GOST 1983 = UN V/18 1987

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The following changes to the entry have been announced 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
		Correction of spelling mistakes and language code elements
		Update of the administrative structure and of the list source	Subdivisions added: Horad Minsk
	2015-11-27	Change romanization system from "GOST 1983" to "Belarusian Lacinka" of bel; change romanization system of BY-HM* of bel and rus
	2018-11-26	Correction of the romanization system label
	2020-11-24	Correction of spelling for BY-HR of BGN/PCGN 1979	-