ISO 3166-2:BT is the entry forBhutan 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 Bhutan, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for20 districts.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part isBT, theISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Bhutan. The second part is two digits, exceptGasa andTrashi Yangtse, which use two letters instead. The first digit indicates the zone where the district is in:
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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| Code | Subdivision name (dz) (National 1997) | Subdivision name (dz) [note 1] |
|---|---|---|
| BT-33 | Bumthang | བུམ་ཐང་ |
| BT-12 | Chhukha | ཆུ་ཁ་ |
| BT-22 | Dagana | དར་དཀར་ན་ |
| BT-GA | Gasa | མགར་ས་ |
| BT-13 | Haa | ཧཱ་ |
| BT-44 | Lhuentse | ལྷུན་རྩེ་ |
| BT-42 | Monggar | མོང་སྒར་ |
| BT-11 | Paro | སྤ་རོ་ |
| BT-43 | Pema Gatshel | པད་མ་དགའ་ཚལ་ |
| BT-23 | Punakha | སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ |
| BT-45 | Samdrup Jongkhar | བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར |
| BT-14 | Samtse | བསམ་རྩེ་ |
| BT-31 | Sarpang | གསར་སྤང་ |
| BT-15 | Thimphu | ཐིམ་ཕུ་ |
| BT-41 | Trashigang | བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་ |
| BT-TY | Trashi Yangtse | བཀྲ་ཤིས་གྱང་ཙེ་ |
| BT-32 | Trongsa | ཀྲོང་གསར་ |
| BT-21 | Tsirang | རྩི་རང་ |
| BT-24 | Wangdue Phodrang | དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་ |
| BT-34 | Zhemgang | གཞམས་སྒང་ |
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) |
|---|---|
| 2014-11-03 | Update List Source |
| 2015-11-27 | Update List Source |
| 2016-11-15 | Change of spelling of BT-13, BT-45; update list source |
| 2018-11-26 | Correction of the romanization system label |
| 2020-11-24 | Change of spelling of BT-43; Update List Source |