ISO 3166-2:LK


ISO 3166-2:LK is the entry for Sri Lanka 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 Sri Lanka, ISO codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:
Each code consists of two parts separated by a hyphen. The first part is, the ISO [3166-1 alpha-2] code of the Sri Lanka. The second part is either of the following:
  • one digit : provinces
  • two digits: districts
For the districts, the first digit is the second part of the ISO code of the province where the district is in.

Current codes

Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.
ISO 639-1 codes are used to represent subdivision names in the following administrative languages:
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Provinces

Districts

; Notes

Changes

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

Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, addition of names in administrative languages

The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:
Effective date of changeShort description of change
2019-11-22Correction of parent subdivision of LK-11, LK-12, LK-13, LK-21, LK-22, LK-23, LK-31, LK-32, LK-41, LK-43, LK-44, LK-45, LK-51, LK-52, LK-53, LK-61, LK-62, LK-71, LK-81, LK-82, LK-91, LK-92; Update List Source
2018-11-26Correction of the romanization system label
2014-12-18Alignment of the French short name lower case with UNTERM; update of the remarks in French
2012-08-02Add administrative language
2010-02-19Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, addition of names in administrative languages