ISO 3166-2:TW


ISO 3166-2:TW is the entry for Taiwan, "Taiwan Province, [People's Republic of China|Taiwan, Province of China]", or "Taiwan ", 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.
ISO 3166-2:TW defines codes for the subdivisions of Taiwan located on the islands of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu, and their subsidiary islands. These areas are de facto under the administration of the government of the Republic of China which resides in Taipei. The government of the [People's Republic of China], which resides in Beijing, also claims these islands but considers ROC-held Fujian islands of Kinmen and Matsu to be within its Fujian Province, not its nominal Taiwan Province.
Currently ISO 3166-2:TW lists 13 counties, three cities and six special municipalities. Constitutionally the counties and cities are part of the China ">ROC provinces of Taiwan and Fujian, but since the provincial governments were largely streamlined in 1998 these 22 subdivisions are regarded as the principal subdivisions of Republic of China .

Format

  • Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Taiwan. The second part is three letters.
  • The divisions in the list are categorized in three types:
  • * Cities: Romanized as shih and formerly called "municipalities" in ISO 3166-2. The divisions carry City in their official names.
  • * Counties: Romanized as hsien and formerly called "districts" in ISO 3166-2. The divisions carry County in their official names.
  • * Special municipalities: Romanized as chih-hsia-shih. The divisions also carry City in their official names.
  • Taiwan is currently assigned the ISO 3166-2 code under ISO 3166-2:CN, as China solely claims it as a province of China.

    Current codes

Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.
CodeSubdivision name
Subdivision name
Subdivision category
Changhua彰化county
Chiayi嘉義city
Chiayi嘉義county
Hsinchu新竹city
Hsinchu新竹county
Hualien花蓮county
Kaohsiung高雄special municipality
Keelung基隆city
Kinmen金門county
Lienchiang連江county
Miaoli苗栗county
Nantou南投county
New Taipei新北special municipality
Penghu澎湖county
Pingtung屏東county
Taichung臺中special municipality
Tainan臺南special municipality
Taipei臺北special municipality
Taitung臺東county
Taoyuan桃園special municipality
Yilan宜蘭county
Yunlin雲林county

; Notes

Changes

The following changes to the entry have been announced by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.
Newsletter/OBPDate issuedDescription of change in newsletterCode/Subdivision change
Error correction: Duplicate use of six code elements corrected. Subdivision categories in header re-sorted
Codes:
2015-11-27Addition of category name for special municipality in zho; change of spelling of TW-ILA; deletion of districts TW-KHQ, TW-TNQ, TW-TPQ, TW-TXQ; addition of districts TW-KIN, TW-LIE and special municipality TW-NWT; change of subdivision category from municipalities to special municipalities for TW-TXG, TW-TNN; change of subdivision category from district to special municipality for TW-TAO; update List Source.
Subdivision added:
Subdivision deleted:
Subdivision category changed:
2016-11-15Change of subdivision category from municipality to city and district to county; update List Source