ISO 3166-2:AO is the entry for Angola

Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...

 in ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1...

, part of the ISO 3166

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 standard

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 (ISO), which defines code

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s for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., province

Province

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s or states) of all countries

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 coded in ISO 3166-1

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Currently for Angola, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 18 provinces

Provinces of Angola

Angola is divided into eighteen provinces:-See also:* ISO 3166-2:AO, the ISO codes for Angola....

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Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is AO, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest...

 code of Angola. The second part is three letters.

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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Code	Subdivision name
AO-BGO	Bengo
AO-BGU	Benguela
AO-BIE	Bié
AO-CAB	Cabinda
AO-CCU	Cuando-Cubango
AO-CNO	Cuanza Norte
AO-CUS	Cuanza Sul
AO-CNN	Cunene
AO-HUA	Huambo
AO-HUI	Huíla
AO-LUA	Luanda
AO-LNO	Lunda Norte
AO-LSU	Lunda Sul
AO-MAL	Malange
AO-MOX	Moxico
AO-NAM	Namibe
AO-UIG	Uíge
AO-ZAI	Zaire

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
		Spelling correction in AO-ZAI

See also

• Subdivisions of Angola
  Subdivisions of Angola
  Angola is divided into eighteen provinces and 163 municipalities.There are a total of 618 communes of Angola.- Provinces :* Bengo* Benguela* Bié* Cabinda* Cuando Cubango* Cuanza Norte* Cuanza Sul* Cunene* Huambo* Huila* Luanda...
  
  
• FIPS region codes of Angola

External links

• Provinces of Angola, Statoids.com