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ISO 3166 2:MV

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ISO 3166-2:MV is the entry for Maldives 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.

Contents

Currently for Maldives, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:

  • 1 capital and 7 provinces
  • 20 administrative atolls

    • The capital of the country MalĂ© has special status equal to the provinces.

    Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is MV, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Maldives. The second part is one of the following:

  • three letters: capital
  • two letters: provinces
  • two digits: administrative atolls

    • 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:

  • (en): English
  • (dv): Dhivehi

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    Administrative atolls

    Notes

    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:

    References

    ISO 3166-2:MV Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA