ISO 3166-2:BA is the entry for Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

 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

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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 Bosnia and Herzegovina, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:

• 2 entities and 1 district with special status
• 10 cantons
  Cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  The 10 cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina serve as the second-level units of local autonomy of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the two political entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina....
  
   (all in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the two political entities that compose the sovereign country of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The two entities are delineated by the Inter-Entity Boundary Line...
  
  ; Republika Srpska
  Republika Srpska
  Republika Srpska is one of two main political entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
  
   is not divided into cantons)

The Brčko District

Brcko District

Brčko District in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina is a neutral, self-governing administrative unit, under the sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina...

 has special status, formally belonging to both entities but effectively self-governing.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is BA, 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina. The second part is either of the following:

• three letters: entities and district with special status
• two digits (01–10): cantons

Current codes

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

ISO 639-1

ISO 639-1

ISO 639-1:2002, Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 1: Alpha-2 code, is the first part of the ISO 639 series of international standards for language codes. Part 1 covers the registration of two-letter codes. There are 136 two-letter codes registered...

 codes are used to represent subdivision names in the following administrative language

Official language

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s:

• (bs): Bosnian
  Bosnian language
  Bosnian is a South Slavic language, spoken by Bosniaks. As a standardized form of the Shtokavian dialect, it is one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina....
  
  
• (hr): Croatian
  Croatian language
  Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...
  
  
• (sr): Serbian
  Serbian language
  Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
  
  

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Entities and district with special status

Code	Subdivision name (bs Bosnian language Bosnian is a South Slavic language, spoken by Bosniaks. As a standardized form of the Shtokavian dialect, it is one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina.... ), (hr Croatian language Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries... ), (sr Serbian language Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries.... )	Subdivision category
BA-BIH		entity
BA-SRP	Republika Srpska	entity
BA-BRC		district with special status

Cantons

Code	Subdivision name (bs Bosnian language Bosnian is a South Slavic language, spoken by Bosniaks. As a standardized form of the Shtokavian dialect, it is one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina.... )	Subdivision name (hr Croatian language Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries... )	Subdivision name (sr Serbian language Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries.... )	In entity
BA-05	Bosansko-podrinjski kanton	Bosansko-podrinjska županija	Bosansko-podrinjski kanton	BIH Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the two political entities that compose the sovereign country of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The two entities are delineated by the Inter-Entity Boundary Line...
BA-07	Hercegovačko-neretvanski kanton	Hercegovačko-neretvanska županija	Hercegovačko-neretvanski kanton	BIH Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the two political entities that compose the sovereign country of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The two entities are delineated by the Inter-Entity Boundary Line...
BA-10	Kanton br. 10 (Livanjski kanton)	Županija br. 10 (Hercegbosanska županija)	Kanton br. 10	BIH Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the two political entities that compose the sovereign country of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The two entities are delineated by the Inter-Entity Boundary Line...
BA-09	Kanton Sarajevo	Sarajevska županija	Kanton Sarajevo	BIH Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the two political entities that compose the sovereign country of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The two entities are delineated by the Inter-Entity Boundary Line...
BA-02	Posavski kanton	Posavska županija	Posavski kanton	BIH Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the two political entities that compose the sovereign country of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The two entities are delineated by the Inter-Entity Boundary Line...
BA-06	Srednjobosanski kanton	Srednjobosanska županija	Srednjobosanski kanton	BIH Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the two political entities that compose the sovereign country of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The two entities are delineated by the Inter-Entity Boundary Line...
BA-03	Tuzlanski kanton	Tuzlanska županija	Tuzlanski kanton	BIH Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the two political entities that compose the sovereign country of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The two entities are delineated by the Inter-Entity Boundary Line...
BA-01	Unsko-sanski kanton	Unsko-sanska županija	Unsko-sanski kanton	BIH Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the two political entities that compose the sovereign country of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The two entities are delineated by the Inter-Entity Boundary Line...
BA-08	Zapadnohercegovački kanton	Zapadnohercegovačka županija	Zapadnohercegovački kanton	BIH Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the two political entities that compose the sovereign country of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The two entities are delineated by the Inter-Entity Boundary Line...
BA-04	Zeničko-dobojski kanton	Zeničko-dobojska županija	Zeničko-dobojski kanton	BIH Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the two political entities that compose the sovereign country of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The two entities are delineated by the Inter-Entity Boundary Line...

Changes

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

Edition/Newsletter	Date issued	Description of change in newsletter	Code/Subdivision change
		Second edition of ISO 3166-2 (this change was not announced in a newsletter)	Subdivisions added: 10 cantons
		Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, addition of names in administrative languages, update of the administrative structure and of the list source	Subdivisions added: BA-BRC Brčko distrikt

See also

• Subdivisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• FIPS region codes of Bosnia and Herzegovina

External links

• Divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Statoids.com