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ISO 3166-2:FR

ISO 3166-2:FR is the entry for France 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 France, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for the following subdivisions:

  • Metropolitan France (two levels):
  • 22 metropolitan regions (still as they were before 1 January 2016, when metropolitan regions merged to a new total of 13 regions, still not encoded by ISO 3166-2)
  • 96 metropolitan departments (still as they were before 1 January 2015 when one department was split in two parts, one of them being a metropole and not a department: the two new entities are still not encoded in ISO 3166-2)
  • Overseas France: 5 overseas departments, 1 dependency, and 7 overseas territorial collectivities

    • Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is FR, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of France. The second part is either of the following:

  • one letter (A–V): metropolitan regions
  • two digits, or a digit followed by a letter: metropolitan departments
  • two letters: overseas departments, dependency, and overseas territorial collectivities

    • The codes for the metropolitan departments use their INSEE codes, which are currently used in postal codes, and used in vehicle registration plates until 2009. INSEE codes are assigned as follows:

  • 01–89 except 20: departments created before the 20th century, assigned in alphabetical order (prefixes in the form of "Bas-" and "Haute-" are ignored), except Paris and Yvelines, which replaced the former departments Seine and Seine-et-Oise respectively after the reorganization of the Paris region in 1968
  • 90: Territoire de Belfort, which was given department status in 1922
  • 91–95: departments created after the reorganization of the Paris region in 1968
  • 2A and 2B: Corse-du-Sud and Haute-Corse, which were created after the division of Corsica in 1975, whose INSEE code was 20

    • The codes for the overseas departments, dependency, and overseas territorial collectivities use their ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.

    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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    Metropolitan regions

    Notes

    Subdivisions included in ISO 3166-1

    Besides being included as subdivisions of France in ISO 3166-2, the overseas departments and overseas territorial collectivities are also officially assigned their own country codes in ISO 3166-1.

    The dependency Clipperton Island (FR-CP) is also exceptionally reserved the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code CP on the request of the International Telecommunication Union.

    Metropolitan France (the part of France located in Europe) was previously officially assigned its own set of country codes in ISO 3166-1, with alpha-2 code FX, before it was deleted from ISO 3166-1. The code is now exceptionally reserved on the request of France.

    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:FR Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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