ISO 3166-2:PT is the entry for Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 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

ISO 3166

ISO 3166 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization . It defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, special areas of geographical interest, and their principal subdivisions . The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation...

 standard

Standardization

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 published by the International Organization for Standardization

International Organization for Standardization

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 (ISO), which defines code

Code

A code is a rule for converting a piece of information into another form or representation , not necessarily of the same type....

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

Province

A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.-Etymology:The English word "province" is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century Old French "province," which itself comes from the Latin word "provincia," which referred to...

s or states) of all countries

Country

A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...

 coded in ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166-1 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation of names...

.

Currently for Portugal, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 18 districts

Districts of Portugal

Portugal is divided into 18 districts in mainland Portugal, plus two autonomous regions .The Portuguese Constitution of 1976 specifies that Portugal have only, as first level divisions, the autonomous regions and the administrative regions...

 and 2 autonomous regions

Autonomous regions of Portugal

The two Autonomous Regions of Portugal are the Azores and Madeira...

.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is PT, 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 Portugal. The second part is two digits:

• 01–18: districts
• 20 and 30: autonomous regions (Azores
  Azores
  The Archipelago of the Azores is composed of nine volcanic islands situated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, and is located about west from Lisbon and about east from the east coast of North America. The islands, and their economic exclusion zone, form the Autonomous Region of the...
  
   and Madeira
  Madeira
  Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago that lies between and , just under 400 km north of Tenerife, Canary Islands, in the north Atlantic Ocean and an outermost region of the European Union...
  
  )

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	Subdivision category
PT-01	Aveiro	district
PT-02	Beja	district
PT-03	Braga	district
PT-04	Bragança	district
PT-05	Castelo Branco	district
PT-06	Coimbra	district
PT-07		district
PT-08	Faro	district
PT-09	Guarda	district
PT-10	Leiria	district
PT-11	Lisboa	district
PT-12	Portalegre	district
PT-13	Porto Porto District The District of Porto , sometimes Oporto in English, is located on the north-west coast of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Porto, the second largest city in the country...	district
PT-14	Santarém	district
PT-15	Setúbal	district
PT-16	Viana do Castelo	district
PT-17	Vila Real	district
PT-18	Viseu	district
PT-20

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| PT-30
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See also

• Subdivisions of Portugal
  Subdivisions of Portugal
  Subdivisions of Portugal. For an overview of the administrative subdivisions see: administrative divisions of Portugal.-List of ambiguous subdivision names:* Minho: Province / Subregion* Alto Alentejo: Province / Subregion...
  
  
• FIPS region codes of Portugal
• NUTS codes of Portugal
  NUTS of Portugal
  In the NUTS codes of Portugal , the three levels are:-NUTS codes:In the NUTS codes of Portugal , the three levels are:...
  
  

External links

• Regions of Portugal, Statoids.com