ISO 3166-2:GW


ISO 3166-2:GW is the entry for Guinea-Bissau 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 Guinea-Bissau, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:
The autonomous sector Bissau is the capital of the country and has special status equal to the regions.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Guinea-Bissau. The second part is either of the following:
  • one letter: provinces
  • two letters: autonomous sector and regions
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Current codes

Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.
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Provinces

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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:
NewsletterDate issuedDescription of change in newsletter

Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element
2020-11-24Change of subdivision name of GW-BL; Addition of local variation of GW-BS; Update List Source