ISO 3166-2:CN

ISO 3166-2:CN is the entry 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 of China (whose ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code is CN).

Currently the following subdivisions are assigned codes (all province-level subdivisions):

• 4 municipalities
• 23 provinces (including Taiwan, as the United Nations considers it as part of China even though it is not de facto under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China)
• 5 autonomous regions
• 2 special administrative regions

Each code starts with CN-, followed by two digits, which is the Guobiao GB 2260 numeric code of the subdivision (except the special administrative regions Hong Kong and Macao, which use 91 and 92 while their Guobiao codes are 81 and 82 respectively). The first digit indicates the geographical region where the subdivision is in:

• 1: North China
• 2: Northeast China
• 3: East China
• 4: South Central China
• 5: Southwest China
• 6: Northwest China
• 7: Taiwan
• 9: Hong Kong and Macao

Taiwan and the two special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macao, are also assigned their own country codes in ISO 3166-1, and have separate entries in ISO 3166-2 (see the section Subdivisions included in ISO 3166-1).

Current codes

Codes and subdivision names are listed as in the official standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA). Click on the button in the header to sort each column.

Code	Subdivision name[note 1]	Subdivision category
CN-11	Beijing	municipality
CN-50	Chongqing	municipality
CN-31	Shanghai	municipality
CN-12	Tianjin	municipality
CN-34	Anhui	province
CN-35	Fujian	province
CN-62	Gansu	province
CN-44	Guangdong	province
CN-52	Guizhou	province
CN-46	Hainan	province
CN-13	Hebei	province
CN-23	Heilongjiang	province
CN-41	Henan	province
CN-42	Hubei	province
CN-43	Hunan	province
CN-32	Jiangsu	province
CN-36	Jiangxi	province
CN-22	Jilin	province
CN-21	Liaoning	province
CN-63	Qinghai	province
CN-61	Shaanxi	province
CN-37	Shandong	province
CN-14	Shanxi	province
CN-51	Sichuan	province
CN-71	Taiwan	province
CN-53	Yunnan	province
CN-33	Zhejiang	province
CN-45	Guangxi	autonomous region
CN-15	Nei Mongol (mn)	autonomous region
CN-64	Ningxia	autonomous region
CN-65	Xinjiang	autonomous region
CN-54	Xizang	autonomous region
CN-91	Xianggang (zh),  Hong Kong (en)	special administrative region
CN-92	Aomen (zh),  Macao (en)	special administrative region

Notes

1. ^ Subdivision names in different languages are denoted by their ISO 639-1 codes: Chinese (zh); English (en); Mongolian (mn).

Subdivisions included in ISO 3166-1

Besides being included as subdivisions of China in ISO 3166-2, Taiwan and the two special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macao, are also assigned their own country codes in ISO 3166-1, and have separate entries in ISO 3166-2 (click on alpha-2 code for entry in ISO 3166-2):

In ISO 3166-1, Taiwan is listed as "Taiwan, Province of China" due to its political status within the UN.

Changes

The following changes to the entry have been made and announced in newsletters by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998:

See also

• Subdivisions of China
• FIPS region codes of China (standard withdrawn in 2008)

External links

• Provinces of China, Statoids.com