ISO 3166-2:AR - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

ISO 3166-2:AR is the entry for Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

in ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1...

, part of the ISO 3166

ISO 3166

ISO 3166 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization . It defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, special areas of geographical interest, and their principal subdivisions . The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation...

standard

Standardization

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published by the International Organization for Standardization

International Organization for Standardization

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(ISO), which defines code

Code

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s for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., province

Province

A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.-Etymology:The English word "province" is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century Old French "province," which itself comes from the Latin word "provincia," which referred to...

s or states) of all countries

Country

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coded in ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166-1 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation of names...

.

Currently for Argentina, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 1 city and 23 provinces

Provinces of Argentina

Argentina is subdivided into twenty-three provinces and one autonomous city...

. The city Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

is the capital of the country and has special status equal to the provinces.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is AR, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest...

code of Argentina. The second part is a letter, originally used in vehicle registration plates (the letters I and O are not used since they could be mistaken as 1 and 0 respectively and were left out of license plates), and currently used in postal codes.

Current codes

Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).

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Code	Subdivision name	Subdivision category
`AR-C`		city
`AR-B`		province
`AR-K`	Catamarca Catamarca Province Catamarca is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. The province has a population of 334,568 as per the , and covers an area of 102,602 km². Its literacy rate is 95.5%. Neighbouring provinces are : Salta, Tucumán, Santiago del Estero, Córdoba, and La Rioja...	province
`AR-H`	Chaco Province	province
`AR-U`	Chubut Province	province
`AR-X`		province
`AR-W`	Corrientes Province	province
`AR-E`	Entre Ríos Province	province
`AR-P`	Formosa Province	province
`AR-Y`	Jujuy Province	province
`AR-L`	La Pampa Province	province
`AR-F`		province
`AR-M`	Mendoza Province	province
`AR-N`	Misiones Province	province
`AR-Q`	Neuquén Province	province
`AR-R`		province
`AR-A`	Salta Province	province
`AR-J`	San Juan Province (Argentina)	province
`AR-D`	San Luis Province	province
`AR-Z`	Santa Cruz Province (Argentina)	province
`AR-S`	Santa Fe Province	province
`AR-G`	Santiago del Estero Province	province
`AR-V`	Tierra del Fuego Province (Argentina)	province
`AR-T`	Tucumán Province	province