ISO 3166-2:JP

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ISO 3166-2:JP

ISO 3166-2:JP is an ISO

International Organization for Standardization

The International Organization for Standardization , widely known as ISO , is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations....
standard which defines geocode

Geocode

GEOCODE is a standardized all-natural number representation format specification for geospatial coordinate measurements that provide details of the exact location of geospatial point at, below, or above the surface of the earth at a specified moment of time....
s: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2 is part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of the principal country subdivisions of all country coded in ISO 3166-1....
which applies to

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ISO 3166-2:JP is an ISO

International Organization for Standardization

Geocode

ISO 3166-2

Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
. It covers 47 prefectures

Prefectures of Japan

The prefectures of Japan are the country's 47 sub-national jurisdictions: one "metropolis" , Tokyo; one "Circuit #Japan" , Hokkaido; two urban prefectures , Osaka Prefecture and Kyoto Prefecture; and 43 other prefectures ....
. The first part is the ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166-1 is part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of country, dependent territory, and special areas of geographical interest....
code JP for Japan, the second part is two-digit-numeric.

The names are listed in accordance with Kunrei-shiki

Kunrei-shiki

is a romanization system, i.e. a system for transcribing the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet. It is abbreviated as Kunrei-shiki. Its name is rendered Kunreisiki using Kunrei-shiki itself....
(ISO 3602) Romanization

Romanization

In linguistics, romanization is the representation of a written word or spoken speech with the Latin alphabet, or a system for doing so, where the original word or language uses a different writing system ....
system, followed by the Hepburn

Hepburn romanization

The is named after James Curtis Hepburn, who used it to transcribe the sounds of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet in the third edition of his Japanese?English dictionary, published in 1887....
spelling (if different) and the kanji

Kanji

are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese language logogram along with hiragana , katakana , Arabic numerals, and the occasional use of the Latin alphabet....
in brackets.

Code	Name
`JP-01`	(Hokkaido)
`JP-02`
`JP-03`
`JP-04`
`JP-05`
`JP-06`
`JP-07`	(Fukushima)
`JP-08`
`JP-09`	(Tochigi)
`JP-10`
`JP-11`
`JP-12`	(Chiba)
`JP-13`	(Tokyo)
`JP-14`
`JP-15`
`JP-16`
`JP-17`	(Ishikawa)
`JP-18`	(Fukui)
`JP-19`	(Yamanashi)
`JP-20`
`JP-21`	(Gifu)
`JP-22`	(Shizuoka)
`JP-23`	(Aichi)
`JP-24`
`JP-25`	(Shiga)
`JP-26`	(Kyoto)
`JP-27`	(Osaka)
`JP-28`	(Hyogo)
`JP-29`
`JP-30`
`JP-31`
`JP-32`	(Shimane)
`JP-33`
`JP-34`	(Hiroshima)
`JP-35`	(Yamaguchi)
`JP-36`	(Tokushima)
`JP-37`
`JP-38`
`JP-39`	(Kochi)
`JP-40`	(Fukuoka)
`JP-41`
`JP-42`
`JP-43`
`JP-44`	(Oita)
`JP-45`
`JP-46`	(Kagoshima)
`JP-47`

ISO 3166-2:JP

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