ISO 3166-2:KP


ISO 3166-2:KP is the entry for North Korea 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 North Korea, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two metropolitan cities, one capital city, one special city, and nine provinces. All of them except the metropolitan city are province-level subdivisions. The three special administrative regions, i.e. the Kaesong Industrial Region, the Mount Kumgang Tourist Region, and the Sinuiju Special Administrative Region, are not listed.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of North Korea. The second part is two digits:
  • 01: capital city
  • 02–10: provinces
  • 13: special city
  • 14–15: metropolitan cities

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 Subdivision name Subdivision category
Chagang-doJakangto자강도Chagangprovince
Hamgyǒng-buktoHamkyeongpukto함경북도North Hamgyongprovince
Hamgyǒng-namdoHamkyeongnamto함경남도province
Hwanghae-buktoHwanghaipukto황해북도North Hwanghaeprovince
Hwanghae-namdoHwanghainamto황해남도South Hwanghaeprovince
KaesŏngKaeseong개성시Kaesong
Kangwǒn-doKangweonto강원도Kangwonprovince
Namp’oNampho남포시Nampometropolitan city
P'yǒngan-buktoPhyeonganpukto평안북도North Pyonganprovince
P'yǒngan-namdoPhyeongannamto평안남도South Pyonganprovince
P'yǒngyangPhyeongyang평양시Pyongyangcapital city
Rasǒn
Raseon라선시Rasonspecial city
Ryanggang-doRyangkangto량강도Ryanggangprovince

; Notes

Changes

The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:
Effective date of changeShort description of change
2017-11-23Change of spelling of KP-10, KP-13 ; addition of metropolitan city KP-14; update List Source.
2014-12-18Deletion of the space between "de" and the parenthesis in the short French name lower case.
2010-02-19Administrative update, replacement of alphabetical characters with numeric characters in second code element
2022-11-29Addition of metropolitan city KP-15; Update List Source

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
Addition of one special city. Subdivision categories in header re-sortedSubdivisions added:
Najin Sonbong-si
Spelling correction in header of list source

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Administrative update, replacement of alphabetical characters with numeric characters in second code elementSubdivisions deleted:
Kaesong-si
Nampo-si
Codes:
format changed '