ISO 3166-2:GW

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Short description: Entry for Guinea-Bissau in ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2:GW is the entry for Guinea-Bissau 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.

Currently for Guinea-Bissau, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:

  • 3 provinces
  • 1 autonomous sector and 8 regions

The autonomous sector Bissau is the capital of the country and has special status equal to the regions.

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

  • one letter: provinces
  • two letters: autonomous sector and regions

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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Provinces

Code Subdivision name (pt) Subdivision name (en)[note 1]
GW-L Leste East
GW-N Norte North
GW-S Sul South
Notes
  1. For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.

Autonomous sector and regions

Code Subdivision name (pt) Local variant Subdivision category In province
GW-BA Bafatá region L
GW-BM Biombo region N
GW-BS Bissau SAB autonomous sector
GW-BL Bolama / Bijagós region S
GW-CA Cacheu region N
GW-GA Gabú region L
GW-OI Oio region N
GW-QU Quinara region S
GW-TO Tombali region S

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:

Newsletter Date issued Description of change in newsletter
Newsletter II-1 2010-02-03
(corrected
2010-02-19)
Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element
Online Browsing Platform (OBP) 2020-11-24 Change of subdivision name of GW-BL; Addition of local variation of GW-BS; Update List Source

See also

  • Subdivisions of Guinea-Bissau
  • FIPS region codes of Guinea-Bissau
  • Neighbouring countries: GN, SN

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