ISO 3166-2:GA is the entry for Gabon

Gabon

Gabon , officially the Gabonese Republic is a state in west central Africa sharing borders with Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, and with the Republic of the Congo curving around the east and south. The Gulf of Guinea, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean is to the west...

 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

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 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

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Currently for Gabon, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 9 provinces

Provinces of Gabon

||Gabon is divided into nine provinces -#Estuaire #Haut-Ogooué #Moyen-Ogooué #Ngounié #Nyanga #Ogooué-Ivindo #Ogooué-Lolo #Ogooué-Maritime...

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Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is GA, 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 Gabon. The second part is a digit (1–9).

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
GA-1	Estuaire Estuaire Province Estuaire is one of Gabon's nine provinces. It covers an area of 20,740 km². The provincial capital is Libreville, which is also the national capital. The province is named for the Gabon Estuary, which is at the heart of the province....
GA-2	Haut-Ogooué
GA-3	Moyen-Ogooué
GA-4	Ngounié
GA-5	Nyanga
GA-6	Ogooué-Ivindo
GA-7	Ogooué-Lolo
GA-8	Ogooué-Maritime
GA-9	Woleu-Ntem

See also

• Subdivisions of Gabon
  Subdivisions of Gabon
  Gabon is divided into nine provinces and further divided into 37 departments.- Provinces :# Estuaire# Haut-Ogooué# Moyen-Ogooué# Ngounié# Nyanga# Ogooué-Ivindo# Ogooué-Lolo# Ogooué-Maritime# Woleu-Ntem...
  
  
• FIPS region codes of Gabon

External links

• Provinces of Gabon, Statoids.com