ISO 3166-2:ZA

ISO 3166-2:ZA is the entry for South Africa 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.
ZA hails from Dutch: Zuid-Afrika. Currently for South Africa, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for nine provinces.
Each code consists of two parts separated by a hyphen. The first part is, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of South Africa. The second part consists of two or three letters indicating the province.

Current codes

Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.
ISO 639 codes are used to represent subdivision names in the following administrative languages:

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The following changes to the entry have been announced by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998:

Edition/Newsletter	Date issued	Description of change	Code/Subdivision change
		Change of name of Northern Province to Limpopo	Subdivision: Northern Province → Limpopo
		Addition of administrative divisions and their codes	Codes: ' Gauteng: → KwaZulu-Natal: →
		Second edition of ISO 3166-2 '	Codes: Gauteng: → KwaZulu-Natal: →

The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:

Effective date of change	Description of change	Code/Subdivision change
	Change of subdivision code from ZA-GT to ZA-GP, ZA-NL to ZA-KZN; Update Code Source	Codes: → →