ISO 3166-2:GR
ISO 3166-2:GR is the entry for Greece 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 Greece, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two categories of subdivisions:
The departments were abolished in 2011, and were replaced approximately by regional units. The regional units were deleted from the entry in 2016.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Greece. The second part is either of the following:
- one letter : administrative regions
- two digits: self-governed part
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.''
Administrative regions
; NotesChanges
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:| Newsletter | Date issued | Description of change in newsletter | Code/Subdivision change |
' | Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, reallocation of 3166-2 alpha-2 codes to avoid duplication, addition of names in administrative languages | Codes: format changed ' |
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 |
| 2019-11-22 | Grammar correction of GR-J, GR-K, GR-L |
| 2018-11-26 | Correction of the romanization system label |
| 2016-11-15 | Change of spelling of GR-M; deletion of subdivision category department; deletion of departments GR-01, GR-11, GR-12, GR-31, GR-A1, GR-64, GR-94, GR-85, GR-81, GR-52, GR-71, GR-05, GR-04, GR-63, GR-07, GR-06, GR-51, GR-14, GR-53, GR-33, GR-91, GR-41, GR-56, GR-55, GR-23, GR-22, GR-57, GR-15, GR-58, GR-82, GR-16, GR-42, GR-92, GR-24, GR-83, GR-43, GR-07, GR-59, GR-61, GR-34, GR-93, GR-73, GR-84, GR-62, GR-32, GR-54, GR-44, GR-03, GR-72, GR-21; update list source |
| 2015-11-27 | Change of the local short name |
| 2014-10-30 | Correct spelling of GR-01, GR-81, GR-23, GR-93, GR-69; correct diacritic marks; update List Source |
| 2010-02-19 | Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, reallocation of 3166-2 alpha-2 codes to avoid duplication, addition of names in administrative languages |
| 2020-03-02 | Typographical correction of subdivision name of GR-J |