ISO 3166-2:HR is the entry for Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

 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

Standardization is the process of developing and implementing technical standards.The goals of standardization can be to help with independence of single suppliers , compatibility, interoperability, safety, repeatability, or quality....

 published by the International Organization for Standardization

International Organization for Standardization

The International Organization for Standardization , widely known as ISO, is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. Founded on February 23, 1947, the organization promulgates worldwide proprietary, industrial and commercial...

 (ISO), which defines code

Code

A code is a rule for converting a piece of information into another form or representation , not necessarily of the same type....

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

A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...

 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 Croatia, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 1 city and 20 counties

Counties of Croatia

The primary territorial subdivisions of the Republic of Croatia called županije . In English they are commonly referred to as counties....

. The city Zagreb

Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

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

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is HR, 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 Croatia. The second part is two digits:

• 01–20: counties
• 21: city

Current codes

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

Subdivision names are sorted in Croatian alphabet

Croatian alphabet

Gaj's Latin alphabet is a variant of the Latin script used for Croatian language. It was devised by Croatian linguist Ljudevit Gaj in 1835, based on Jan Hus's Czech alphabet....

ical order: a-c, č, ć, d, dž, đ, e-l, lj, m-n, nj, o-s, š, t-z, ž.

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Code	Subdivision name	Subdivision category
HR-21	Grad Zagreb	city
HR-07	Bjelovarsko-bilogorska županija	county
HR-12	Brodsko-posavska županija	county
HR-19	Dubrovačko-neretvanska županija	county
HR-18	Istarska županija	county
HR-04	Karlovačka županija	county
HR-06	Koprivničko-križevačka županija	county
HR-02	Krapinsko-zagorska županija	county
HR-09	Ličko-senjska županija	county
HR-20	Međimurska županija	county
HR-14	Osječko-baranjska županija	county
HR-11	Požeško-slavonska županija	county
HR-08	Primorsko-goranska županija	county
HR-03	Sisačko-moslavačka županija	county
HR-17	Splitsko-dalmatinska županija	county
HR-15		county
HR-05	Varaždinska županija	county
HR-10	Virovitičko-podravska županija	county
HR-16	Vukovarsko-srijemska županija	county
HR-13	Zadarska županija	county
HR-01	Zagrebačka županija	county

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:

Newsletter	Date issued	Description of change in newsletter	Code/Subdivision change
		Addition of one city subdivision. Three spelling corrections	Subdivisions added: HR-21 Grad Zagreb

See also

• Subdivisions of Croatia
• FIPS region codes of Croatia
• NUTS codes of Croatia
  NUTS of Croatia
  As a candidate country of the European Union, Croatia is included in the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics . The three NUTS levels are:* NUTS-1: Croatia* NUTS-2: 3 Regions* NUTS-3: 21 CountiesThe NUTS codes are as follows:...
  
  

External links

• Counties of Croatia, Statoids.com