ISO 3166-2:FR

ISO 3166-2:FR is the entry for France 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 France, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for the following subdivisions:

Metropolitan France :
* 12 metropolitan regions
* three metropolitan collectivities with special status
* 95 metropolitan departments
* one European collectivity
Overseas France:
* one dependency
* five overseas collectivities
* one overseas collectivity with special status
* three overseas departmental collectivities
* one overseas territory
* two overseas unique territorial collectivities

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of France. The second part is either of the following:

one digit followed by two letters: European collectivity
two digits: metropolitan departments
two digits followed by a letter: metropolitan collectivities with special status
two letters: overseas collectivities, overseas collectivity with special status, overseas territory
three letters: metropolitan regions
three digits: overseas departmental collectivities, overseas unique territorial collectivities

The metropolitan departments use their INSEE codes, which are currently used in postal codes, and used in vehicle registration plates until 2009. INSEE codes are assigned as follows:

01–89 except 20: departments created before the 20th century, assigned in alphabetical order, except Paris and Yvelines, which replaced the former departments Seine and Seine-et-Oise respectively after the reorganization of the Paris region in 1968;
90: Territoire de Belfort, which was given department status in 1922;
91–95: departments created after the reorganization of the Paris region in 1968;
2A and 2B: Corse-du-Sud and Haute-Corse, which were created after the division of Corsica in 1975, whose INSEE code was 20.
Current codes

Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.
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First-level metropolitan subdivisions

Second-level subdivisions

Code

Subdivision name

Subdivision category

Ainmono|ARAmono|FR-02

Third-level subdivisions

Dependency, overseas territory, and overseas collectivities

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Subdivisions included in ISO 3166-1

Besides being included as subdivisions of France in ISO 3166-2, several subdivisions are also officially assigned their own country codes in ISO 3166-1.

Code	Subdivision name	ISO 3166-1 English name	ISO 3166-1 French name	ISO 3166-2 code
	Guadeloupe	Guadeloupe	Guadeloupe	ISO 3166-2:GP
	Guyane	French Guiana	Guyane française	ISO 3166-2:GF
	La Réunion	Réunion	Réunion	ISO 3166-2:RE
	Martinique	Martinique	Martinique	ISO 3166-2:MQ
	Mayotte	Mayotte	Mayotte	ISO 3166-2:YT
	Nouvelle-Calédonie	New Caledonia	Nouvelle-Calédonie	ISO 3166-2:NC
	Polynésie française	French Polynesia	Polynésie française	ISO 3166-2:PF
	Saint-Barthélemy	Saint Barthélemy	Saint-Barthélemy	ISO 3166-2:BL
	Saint-Martin	Saint Martin	Saint-Martin	ISO 3166-2:MF
	Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon	ISO 3166-2:PM
	Terres australes françaises	French Southern Territories	Terres australes françaises	ISO 3166-2:TF
	Wallis-et-Futuna	Wallis and Futuna	Wallis-et-Futuna	ISO 3166-2:WF

The dependency Clipperton Island is also exceptionally reserved the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code on the request of the International Telecommunication Union.
Metropolitan France was previously officially assigned its own set of country codes in ISO 3166-1, with alpha-2 code, before it was deleted from ISO 3166-1. The code is now exceptionally reserved on the request of France.
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Changes

The following changes to the entry have been announced by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO in 1998. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.

Source	Date issued	Description of change	Code/Subdivision change
		Correction of the Metropolitan region code in FR-79
		Addition of administrative subdivisions and of their code elements	Subdivisions added: Clipperton Saint-Barthélemy Saint-Martin
	'	Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, alphabetical re-ordering
	'	NL II-2 correction for ultramarine administrative organisation change and alphabetical re-ordering.	Category change: Mayotte overseas territorial collectivity → overseas department
		Change of the delimitation of the regions, reducing their number from 22 to 13 in metropolitan France, change of parent subdivision of metropolitan departments; addition of overseas regions FR-GUA, FR-LRE, FR-MAY; change of subdivision category from overseas department to overseas territorial collectivity for FR-GF, FR-MQ; update List Source.	Subdivisions added: Guadeloupe La Réunion Mayotte Category change: overseas department → overseas territorial collectivity overseas department → overseas territorial collectivity
		Correction of the OBP entry error as follows: deletion of Clipperton Island, France, Metropolitan in the name field for Territory.
		Correction of parent subdivision of FR-02, FR-60, FR-80 from FR-PDL to FR-HDF	Parent changes: → → →
	2018-11-26	Addition of category name "collectivity" in eng/fra; Change of category name from metropolitan region to collectivity for FR-COR; Update List Source	Category change: metropolitan region → collectivity
	2020-11-24	Change of category name from collectivity to metropolitan collectivity with special status for FR-COR; Change of category name from overseas department to overseas region for FR-GP, FR-RE, FR-YT; Deletion of parent subdivision of FR-GP, FR-RE, FR-YT; Change of category name from overseas region to overseas department for FR-GUA, FR-LRE, FR-MAY; Change of subdivision code from FR-COR to FR-20R, FR-GUA to FR-971, FR-LRE to FR-974, FR-MAY to FR-976; Assign parent subdivision to FR-971, FR-974, FR-976; Change of parent subdivision of FR-972, FR-973; Change of category name from overseas territorial collectivity to overseas collectivity for FR-BL, FR-MF, FR-PF, FR-PM, FR-WF; Addition of category overseas territory with specific status, overseas territory; Change of category name from overseas territorial collectivity to overseas collectivity with special status for FR-NC; Change of category name from overseas territorial collectivity to overseas territory for FR-TF; Update List Source and Code Source	Category changes: collectivity → metropolitan collectivity with special status overseas department → overseas region overseas department → overseas region overseas department → overseas region overseas region → overseas department overseas region → overseas department overseas region → overseas department overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity with special status overseas territorial collectivity → overseas territory Code changes: → → → → Subdivisions added: Martinique Guyane
	2021-11-25	Addition of category European collectivity in eng & fra; Addition of European collectivity FR-6AE; Addition of metropolitan collectivity with special status FR-69M; Change of category name from metropolitan department to metropolitan collectivity with special status for FR-75; Change of subdivision code from FR-75 to FR-75C; Addition of category overseas departmental collectivity in English & French; Change of category name from overseas department to overseas departmental collectivity for FR-971, FR-974, FR-976; Addition of category overseas unique territorial collectivity in eng & fra; Change of category name from overseas department to overseas unique territorial collectivity for FR-972, FR-973; Deletion of category name overseas department; Deletion of overseas region FR-GF, FR-GP, FR-MQ, FR-RE, FR-YT; Deletion of category name overseas region; Change of parent subdivision of FR-67, FR-68; Deletion of parent subdivision of FR-971, FR-972, FR-973, FR-974, FR-976; Modification of Remark part 2; Update List Source and Code Source	Codes added: Alsace Métropole de Lyon Codes changed: Paris → Paris Codes removed: Guyane Guadeloupe Martinique La Réunion Mayotte Category changes: overseas department → overseas departmental collectivity overseas department → overseas unique territorial collectivity overseas department → overseas unique territorial collectivity overseas department → overseas departmental collectivity overseas department → overseas departmental collectivity Parent changes: → →

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Former metropolitan regions (before 31 December 2015)