ISO 3166-2:LY
ISO 3166-2:LY is the entry for Libya 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 Libya, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 22 popularates.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Libya. The second part is two letters.
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.
| Code | Subdivision name | Subdivision name | Subdivision name |
| Al Buţnān | البطنان | Butnan | |
| Al Jabal al Akhḑar | الجبل الأخضر | Green Mountain | |
| Al Jabal al Gharbī | الجبل الغربي | Western Mountain | |
| Al Jafārah | الجفارة | Jafara | |
| Al Jufrah | الجفرة | Jufra | |
| Al Kufrah | الكفرة | Kufra | |
| Al Marj | المرج | Meadows | |
| Al Marqab | المرقب | Murqub | |
| Al Wāḩāt | الواحات | Oases | |
| An Nuqāţ al Khams | النقاط الخمس | Nuqat al Khams | |
| Az Zāwiyah | الزاوية | Zawiya | |
| Banghāzī | بنغازي | Benghazi | |
| Darnah | درنة | Derna | |
| Ghāt | غات | Ghat | |
| Mişrātah | مصراته | Misrata | |
| Murzuq | مرزق | Murzuq | |
| Nālūt | نالوت | Nalut | |
| Sabhā | سبها | Sabha | |
| Surt | سرت | Sirte | |
| طرابلس | Tripoli | ||
| Wādī al Ḩayāt | وادي الحياة | Wadi al Hayaa | |
| Wādī ash Shāţi’ | وادي الشاطئ | Wadi ash Shati |
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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 in 1998. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.| Newsletter | Date issued | Description of change in newsletter | Code/Subdivision change |
| Revision of subdivision layout. Revision of header information | Subdivision layout: 13 municipalities ' → 34 municipalities | ||
| Update of the administrative structure and of the list source | Subdivision layout: 34 municipalities ' → 22 popularates |
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 |
| 2014-12-18 | Alignment of the French short name lower case with UNTERM |
| 2011-11-08 | Name change |
| 2010-06-30 | Update of the administrative structure and of the list source |