ISO 3166-2:SS is the entry forSouth Sudan inISO 3166-2, part of theISO 3166standard published by theInternational Organization for Standardization (ISO), which definescodes for the names of the principalsubdivisions (e.g.,provinces orstates) of allcountries coded inISO 3166-1.
Currently for South Sudan, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined forten states.
Each code consists of two parts separated by a hyphen. The first part isSS, theISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of South Sudan. The second part is two letters.
Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA). The administrative areas of Pibor and Ruweng, as well as the currently disputed region of Abyei, do not currently have a corresponding code, and thus are not listed.
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| Code | Subdivision name (en) |
|---|---|
| SS-EC |  Central Equatoria |
| SS-EE |  Eastern Equatoria |
| SS-JG |  Jonglei |
| SS-LK |  Lakes |
| SS-BN |  Northern Bahr el Ghazal |
| SS-UY |  Unity |
| SS-NU |  Upper Nile |
| SS-WR |  Warrap |
| SS-BW |  Western Bahr el Ghazal |
| SS-EW |  Western Equatoria |
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 II-3 | 2011-12-13 (corrected 2011-12-15) | Administrative subdivisions addition. | Subdivisions added: 10 states |
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) |
|---|---|
| 2021-11-25 | Typographical correction of SS-BW (deletion of the extra space between el and Ghazal) |
| 2014-12-18 | Deletion of the space after the short English name lower case |
| 2011-12-13 | Addition of code and its administrative subdivisions to align ISO 3166-1 and ISO 3166-2. |
| 2011-08-09 | Assign code elements |