ISO 3166-2:DJ

ISO 3166-2:DJ is the entry for Djibouti in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

Currently for Djibouti, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 5 regions and 1 city. The city Djibouti is the capital of the country and has special status equal to the regions.

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

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 codes are used to represent subdivision names in the following administrative languages:

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Code Subdivision name (fr) Subdivision name (ar)
(BGN/PCGN 1956) 		Subdivision category
DJ-AS Ali Sabieh ‘Alī Şabīḩ region
DJ-AR Arta ‘Artā region
DJ-DI Dikhil Dikhīl region
DJ-DJ Djibouti Jībūtī city
DJ-OB Obock Awbūk region
DJ-TA Tadjourah Tājūrah region


Changes

The following changes to the entry have been announced by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.

Newsletter Date issued Description of change in newsletter Code/Subdivision change
Newsletter I-7 2005-09-13 Change of generic term for administrative divisions. Addition of new region "Arta". New list source and code source Subdivisions added:
DJ-AR Arta
Newsletter II-3 2011-12-13
(corrected
2011-12-15) 		Language adjustment and source list update.
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Platform (OBP) 		2014-11-03 Update List Source
2015-11-27 Add romanization system for Arabic; typographical correction of DJ-AS; update List Source
2016-11-15 Change of spelling of DJ-OB in ara

See also