ISO 3166-2:KP is the entry for North Korea

North Korea

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...

 (officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) 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

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 published by the 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

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 coded in ISO 3166-1

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.

Currently for North Korea, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 1 capital city, 1 special city, and 9 provinces. All of them are province-level subdivisions. The three special administrative regions, i.e., the Kaesong Industrial Region

Kaesong Industrial Region

Kaesŏng Industrial Region is a special administrative industrial region of North Korea. It was formed in 2002 from part of Kaesŏng Directly Governed City.-Kaesŏng Industrial Park:...

, the Kumgangsan Tourist Region

Kumgangsan Tourist Region

The Kŭmgangsan Tourist Region is a special administrative region of North Korea. It was established in 2002 to handle South Korean tourist traffic to Kŭmgangsan ....

, and the Sinuiju Special Administrative Region

Sinuiju Special Administrative Region

Sinŭiju Special Administrative Region was a proposed special administrative region of North Korea, on the border with China. It was established in September 2002 in an area including parts of Sinŭiju and the surrounding area, in an attempt to introduce market economics, and is directly governed as...

, are not listed.

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

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

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 code of North Korea. The second part is two digits:

• 01: capital city
• 02–10: provinces
• 13: special 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 name 1 — Romanization system: McCune-Reischauer
  McCune-Reischauer
  McCune–Reischauer romanization is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems, along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which replaced McCune–Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in 2000...
  
   1939
• Subdivision name 2 — Romanization system: KPS 11080:2002

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Code	Subdivision name 1	Subdivision name 2	Subdivision category
KP-01	P’yŏngyang	Phyeongyang	capital city
KP-13	Nasŏn Nason Nason could refer to:* Nason, Illinois, a city in Jefferson County, Illinois, United States* The South Korean name for Rason, a city in North Korea....  (Najin-Sŏnbong)	Raseon	special city
KP-02	P’yŏngan-namdo	Phyeongannamto	province
KP-03	P’yŏngan-bukto	Phyeonganpukto	province
KP-04	Chagang-do	Jakangto	province
KP-05	Hwanghae-namdo	Hwanghainamto	province
KP-06	Hwanghae-bukto	Hwanghaipukto	province
KP-07	Kangwŏn-do	Kangweonto	province
KP-08	Hamgyŏng-namdo	Hamkyeongnamto	province
KP-09	Hamgyŏng-bukto	Hamkyeongpukto	province
KP-10	Yanggang-do	Ryangkangto	province

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 special city. Subdivision categories in header re-sorted	Subdivisions added: KP-NAJ Najin Sonbong-si
		Spelling correction in header of list source
	(corrected )	Administrative update, replacement of alphabetical characters with numeric characters in second code element	Subdivisions deleted: KP-KAE Kaesong-si KP-NAM Nampo-si Codes: format changed (see below)

Codes changed in Newsletter II-1

Before	After	Subdivision name
KP-CHA	KP-04	Chagang-do
KP-HAB	KP-09	Hamgyongbuk-do
KP-HAN	KP-08	Hamgyongnam-do
KP-HWB	KP-06	Hwanghaebuk-do
KP-HWN	KP-05	Hwanghaenam-do
KP-KAN	KP-07	Kangwon-do
KP-PYB	KP-03	Pyonganbuk-do
KP-PYN	KP-02	Pyongannam-do
KP-YAN	KP-10	Yanggang-do
KP-NAJ	KP-13	Najin Sonbong-si
KP-PYO	KP-01	Pyongyang-si

See also

• Subdivisions of North Korea
• FIPS region codes of North Korea

External links

• Provinces of North Korea, Statoids.com