ISO 3166-2:VN is the entry forVietnam 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 Vietnam, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for58 provinces and five municipalities. The municipalities have special status equal to the provinces.
Each code consists of two parts separated by a hyphen. The first part isVN, theISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Vietnam. The second part either of the following:
- two digits: provinces
- two letters: municipalities
Current codes
editSubdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).
Click on the button in the header to sort each column. Names are sorted according to theVietnamese alphabet: a, ă, â, b-d, đ, e, ê, f-o, ô, ơ, p-u, ư, v-z (with alphabetization proceeding on a word-by-word basis, e.g. all names starting with Hà sort before all names with Hải).
Code | Subdivision name (vi) | Subdivision category |
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VN-44 | An Giang | province |
VN-43 | Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu | province |
VN-54 | Bắc Giang | province |
VN-53 | Bắc Kạn | province |
VN-55 | Bạc Liêu | province |
VN-56 | Bắc Ninh | province |
VN-50 | Bến Tre | province |
VN-31 | Bình Định | province |
VN-57 | Bình Dương | province |
VN-58 | Bình Phước | province |
VN-40 | Bình Thuận | province |
VN-59 | Cà Mau | province |
VN-CT | Cần Thơ | municipality |
VN-04 | Cao Bằng | province |
VN-DN | Đà Nẵng | municipality |
VN-33 | Đắk Lắk | province |
VN-72 | Đắk Nông | province |
VN-71 | Điện Biên | province |
VN-39 | Đồng Nai | province |
VN-45 | Đồng Tháp | province |
VN-30 | Gia Lai | province |
VN-03 | Hà Giang | province |
VN-63 | Hà Nam | province |
VN-HN | Hà Nội | municipality |
VN-23 | Hà Tĩnh | province |
VN-61 | Hải Dương | province |
VN-HP | Hải Phòng | municipality |
VN-73 | Hậu Giang | province |
VN-SG | Hồ Chí Minh (local variant is Sai Gon) | municipality |
VN-14 | Hòa Bình | province |
VN-66 | Hưng Yên | province |
VN-34 | Khánh Hòa | province |
VN-47 | Kiến Giang | province |
VN-28 | Kon Tum | province |
VN-01 | Lai Châu | province |
VN-35 | Lâm Đồng | province |
VN-09 | Lạng Sơn | province |
VN-02 | Lào Cai | province |
VN-41 | Long An | province |
VN-67 | Nam Định | province |
VN-22 | Nghệ An | province |
VN-18 | Ninh Bình | province |
VN-36 | Ninh Thuận | province |
VN-68 | Phú Thọ | province |
VN-32 | Phú Yên | province |
VN-24 | Quảng Bình | province |
VN-27 | Quảng Nam | province |
VN-29 | Quảng Ngãi | province |
VN-13 | Quảng Ninh | province |
VN-25 | Quảng Trị | province |
VN-52 | Sóc Trăng | province |
VN-05 | Sơn La | province |
VN-37 | Tây Ninh | province |
VN-20 | Thái Bình | province |
VN-69 | Thái Nguyên | province |
VN-21 | Thanh Hóa | province |
VN-26 | Thừa Thiên-Huế | province |
VN-46 | Tiền Giang | province |
VN-51 | Trà Vinh | province |
VN-07 | Tuyên Quang | province |
VN-49 | Vĩnh Long | province |
VN-70 | Vĩnh Phúc | province |
VN-06 | Yên Bái | province |
Changes
editThe following changes to the entry have been announced 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 |
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Newsletter I-1 | 2000-06-21 | Duplicate assignment of VN-24 corrected. Correction of 1 subdivision name. Correction of alphabetic sorting of subdivision names | Codes:(to correct duplicate use) Quảng Ninh:VN-24 →VN-13 |
Newsletter I-2 | 2002-05-21 | Spelling correction in VN-65 | |
Newsletter I-7 | 2005-09-13 | Addition of 3 provinces. Update of list source | Subdivisions added: VN-72Đắk Nông VN-71Điện Biên VN-73Hậu Giang |
Newsletter II-3 | 2011-12-13 (corrected 2011-12-15) | Administrative adjustment update, typo corrections and source list update. | Subdivision layout: 5 provinces → 5 municipalities |
Online Browsing Platform (OBP) | 2013-02-06 | Correct spelling error in French long name | |
2014-11-03 | Delete subdivision VN-15; change spelling for all the provinces except for VN-28, VN-30, VN-41 and VN-44; update List Source | Subdivision deleted: VN-15 Ha Tay (Merged intoVN-HN in 2008) | |
2020-11-24 | Change of spelling of VN-CT, VN-DN, VN-HN, VN-HP, VN-SG; Update List Source | Subdivision renamed: VN-CT Can Tho → Cần Thơ VN-DN Da Nang → Đà Nẵng VN-HN Ha Noi → Hà Nội VN-HP Hai Phong → Hải Phòng VN-SG Ho Chi Minh → Hồ Chí Minh |
See also
edit- Subdivisions of Vietnam
- FIPS region codes of Vietnam
- Neighbouring countries:CN,KH,LA
External links
edit- ISO Online Browsing Platform: VN
- Provinces of Vietnam, Statoids.com