ISO 3166-2:IR


ISO 3166-2:IR is the entry for the Islamic Republic of Iran 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 Iran, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 31 provinces.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Iran. The second part is two digits.

Current codes

Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.
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CodeSubdivision name Subdivision name Subdivision name
AlborzالبرزAlborz
ArdabīlاردبیلArdabil
آذربایجان غربیWest Azerbaijan
آذربایجان شرقیEast Azerbaijan
BūshehrبوشهرBushehr
Chahār Maḩāl va Bakhtīārīچهارمحال و بختیاریChaharmahal and Bakhtiari
EşfahānاصفهانIsfahan
FārsفارسFars
گیلانGilan
GolestānگلستانGolestan
HamadānهمدانHamadan
HormozgānهرمزگانHormozgan
ایلامIlam
KermānکرمانKerman
KermānshāhکرمانشاهKermanshah
Khorāsān-e Jonūbīخراسان جنوبیSouth Khorasan
Khorāsān-e Raẕavīخراسان رضویCentral Khorasan
Khorāsān-e Shomālīخراسان شمالیNorth Khorasan
KhūzestānخوزستانKhuzestan
Kohgīlūyeh va Bowyer Aḩmadکهگیلویه و بویراحمدKohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
KordestānکردستانKurdistan
LorestānلرستانLorestan
MarkazīمرکزیMarkazi
MāzandarānمازندرانMazandaran
QazvīnقزوینQazvin
QomقمQom
SemnānسمنانSemnan
Sīstān va Balūchestānسیستان و بلوچستانSistan and Baluchestan
TehrānتهرانTehran
YazdیزدYazd
ZanjānزنجانZanjan

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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. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.
NewsletterDate issuedDescription of change in newsletterCode/Subdivision change
Partial reorganization of subdivision layout. Two new provinces. Two name corrections. New reference for the list sourceSubdivisions added:
Golestān
Qazvīn
Modification of the administrative structureSubdivisions added:
Khorāsān-e Janūbī
Khorāsān-e Razavī
Khorāsān-e Shemālī
Subdivisions deleted:
Khorāsān

The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:
Effective date of changeShort description of change
2014-10-30Add 1 province IR-32; update List Source
2014-12-18Alignment of the English short name upper and lower case with UNTERM
2020-11-24Change of subdivision code from IR-01 to IR-03, IR-02 to IR-04, IR-03 to IR-24, IR-04 to IR-10, IR-05 to IR-16, IR-06 to IR-18, IR-07 to IR-23, IR-08 to IR-14, IR-10 to IR-06, IR-11 to IR-19, IR-12 to IR-20, IR-13 to IR-11, IR-14 to IR-07, IR-15 to IR-08, IR-16 to IR-12, IR-17 to IR-05, IR-18 to IR-17, IR-19 to IR-01, IR-20 to IR-15, IR-21 to IR-02, IR-22 to IR-00, IR-23 to IR-22, IR-24 to IR-13, IR-25 to IR-21, IR-26 to IR-25, IR-28 to IR-26, IR-30 to IR-09, IR-31 to IR-28, IR-32 to IR-30; Update Code Source
2024-02-29Change of short name upper case: replace the parentheses with a comma