ISO 3166-2:RS
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ISO 3166-2:RS is the entry for Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

 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
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 Serbia, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:
  • 2 autonomous provinces
  • 1 city and 29 districts
    Districts of Serbia
    Districts , officially called administrative districts are the administrative units of Serbia, comprising several municipalities and/or cities each. They are defined by the Government of Serbia's Enactment of 29 January 1992. Districts are regional centers of state authority and they do not have...



The city Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

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

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is RS, 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 Serbia. The second part is either of the following:
  • two letters: autonomous provinces
  • two digits: city and districts


The digits for the city and districts are assigned as follows:
  • 00: city
  • 01–07: districts in the autonomous province Vojvodina
    Vojvodina
    Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

  • 08–24: districts in Central Serbia
    Central Serbia
    Central Serbia , also referred to as Serbia proper , was the region of Serbia from 1945 to 2009. It included central parts of Serbia outside of the autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina. The region of Central Serbia was not an administrative division of Serbia as such; it was under the...

  • 25–29: districts in the autonomous province Kosovo-Metohija (different from the districts
    Districts of Kosovo
    A District is the highest administrative division level of both the Kosovo protectorate and the partially recognized Republic of Kosovo, over the territory of the Serbian Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija having been an administrative unit in the latter...

     established when it was under the interim administration of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, and currently used by the de facto independent Republic of Kosovo
    Republic of Kosovo
    Kosovo , officially the Republic of Kosovo is a partially recognised state and a disputed territory in the Balkans...

    )


Before the dissoultion of Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia and Montenegro was a country in southeastern Europe, formed from two former republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia : Serbia and Montenegro. Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, it was established in 1992 as a federation called the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...

 in 2006, Serbia was assigned the ISO 3166-2 code CS-SR under the entry for Serbia and Montenegro.

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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Autonomous provinces

Code Subdivision name
RS-KM Kosovo-Metohija
RS-VO Vojvodina
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...


City and districts

Code Subdivision name Subdivision category In autonomous province
RS-00 Beograd city
RS-14 Borski okrug district
RS-11 Braničevski okrug district
RS-23 Jablanički okrug district
RS-06 district VO
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

RS-04 Južnobanatski okrug district VO
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

RS-09 Kolubarski okrug district
RS-25 Kosovski okrug district KM
RS-28 Kosovsko-Mitrovački okrug district KM
RS-29 Kosovsko-Pomoravski okrug district KM
RS-08 Mačvanski okrug district
RS-17 Moravički okrug district
RS-20 Nišavski okrug district
RS-24 district
RS-26 Pećki okrug district KM
RS-22 Pirotski okrug district
RS-10 Podunavski okrug district
RS-13 Pomoravski okrug district
RS-27 Prizrenski okrug district KM
RS-19 Rasinski okrug district
RS-18 Raški okrug district
RS-01 district VO
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

RS-03 Severnobanatski okrug district VO
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

RS-02 Srednjebanatski okrug district VO
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

RS-07 Sremski okrug district VO
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

RS-12 district
RS-21 Toplički okrug district
RS-15 Zaječarski okrug district
RS-05 Zapadnobački okrug district VO
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

RS-16 Zlatiborski okrug district

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 a new country
(in accordance with ISO 3166-1 Newsletter V-12)
Subdivisions added:
1 city, 2 autonomous republics, 29 districts

(corrected
)
Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, administrative update

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