Entry for Libya in ISO 3166-2
ISO 3166-2:LY is the entry for Libya 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 Libya, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 22 popularates .
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is LY , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Libya. 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).
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Notes
^ For reference only, Arabic name in Arabic script not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
^ For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
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. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.
Newsletter
Date issued
Description of change in newsletter
Code/Subdivision change
Newsletter I-5
2003-09-05
Revision of subdivision layout. Revision of header information
Subdivision layout: 13 municipalities (see below) → 34 municipalities
Newsletter II-2
2010-06-30
Update of the administrative structure and of the list source
Subdivision layout: 34 municipalities (see below) → 22 popularates
The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:
Effective date of change
Short description of change (en)
2014-12-18
Alignment of the French short name lower case with UNTERM
2011-11-08
Name change
2010-06-30
Update of the administrative structure and of the list source
Codes before Newsletter I-5
Former code
Subdivision name
LY-BU
Al Buţnān
LY-JA
Al Jabal al Akhḑar
LY-JG
Al Jabal al Gharbī
LY-JU
Al Jufrah
LY-WA
Al Wāḩah
LY-WU
Al Wusţá
LY-ZA
Az Zāwiyah
LY-BA
Banghāzī
LY-FA
Fazzān
LY-MI
Mişrātah
LY-NA
Naggaza
LY-SF
Sawfajjin
LY-TB
Ţarābulus
Codes before Newsletter II-2
See also
External links
ISO 3166 – codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions
ISO 3166-1 – country codes ISO 3166-2 – country subdivision codes
ISO 3166-3 – codes for former names of countries
a changed from TP
b changed from YU