ISO 3166-2:VN
ISO 3166-2:VN is the entry for Vietnam 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 Vietnam, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 58 provinces and 5 municipalities. The municipalities have special status equal to the provinces.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is VN, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Vietnam. The second part either of the following:
- two digits: provinces
- two letters: municipalities
Current codes
Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).
Click on the button in the header to sort each column. Names are sorted according to the Vietnamese alphabet: a, ă, â, b-d, đ, e, ê, f-o, ô, ơ, p-u, ư, v-z (with alphabetization proceeding on a word-by-word basis, e.g. all names starting with Hà sort before all names with Hải).
| Code | Subdivision name (vi) | Subdivision category |
|---|---|---|
| VN-44 | An Giang | province |
| VN-43 | Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu | province |
| VN-54 | Bắc Giang | province |
| VN-53 | Bắc Kạn | province |
| VN-55 | Bạc Liêu | province |
| VN-56 | Bắc Ninh | province |
| VN-50 | Bến Tre | province |
| VN-31 | Bình Định | province |
| VN-57 | Bình Dương | province |
| VN-58 | Bình Phước | province |
| VN-40 | Bình Thuận | province |
| VN-59 | Cà Mau | province |
| VN-CT | Cần Thơ | municipality |
| VN-04 | Cao Bằng | province |
| VN-DN | Đà Nẵng | municipality |
| VN-33 | Đắk Lắk | province |
| VN-72 | Đắk Nông | province |
| VN-71 | Điện Biên | province |
| VN-39 | Đồng Nai | province |
| VN-45 | Đồng Tháp | province |
| VN-30 | Gia Lai | province |
| VN-03 | Hà Giang | province |
| VN-63 | Hà Nam | province |
| VN-HN | Hà Nội | municipality |
| VN-23 | Hà Tĩnh | province |
| VN-61 | Hải Dương | province |
| VN-HP | Hải Phòng | municipality |
| VN-73 | Hậu Giang | province |
| VN-SG | Hồ Chí Minh (local variant is Sai Gon) |
municipality |
| VN-14 | Hòa Bình | province |
| VN-66 | Hưng Yên | province |
| VN-34 | Khánh Hòa | province |
| VN-47 | Kiến Giang | province |
| VN-28 | Kon Tum | province |
| VN-01 | Lai Châu | province |
| VN-35 | Lâm Đồng | province |
| VN-09 | Lạng Sơn | province |
| VN-02 | Lào Cai | province |
| VN-41 | Long An | province |
| VN-67 | Nam Định | province |
| VN-22 | Nghệ An | province |
| VN-18 | Ninh Bình | province |
| VN-36 | Ninh Thuận | province |
| VN-68 | Phú Thọ | province |
| VN-32 | Phú Yên | province |
| VN-24 | Quảng Bình | province |
| VN-27 | Quảng Nam | province |
| VN-29 | Quảng Ngãi | province |
| VN-13 | Quảng Ninh | province |
| VN-25 | Quảng Trị | province |
| VN-52 | Sóc Trăng | province |
| VN-05 | Sơn La | province |
| VN-37 | Tây Ninh | province |
| VN-20 | Thái Bình | province |
| VN-69 | Thái Nguyên | province |
| VN-21 | Thanh Hóa | province |
| VN-26 | Thừa Thiên-Huế | province |
| VN-46 | Tiền Giang | province |
| VN-51 | Trà Vinh | province |
| VN-07 | Tuyên Quang | province |
| VN-49 | Vĩnh Long | province |
| VN-70 | Vĩnh Phúc | province |
| VN-06 | Yên Bái | province |
Changes
The following changes to the entry have been announced by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.
| Newsletter | Date issued | Description of change in newsletter | Code/Subdivision change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newsletter I-1 | 2000-06-21 | Duplicate assignment of VN-24 corrected. Correction of 1 subdivision name. Correction of alphabetic sorting of subdivision names | Codes: (to correct duplicate use) Quảng Ninh: VN-24 → VN-13 |
| Newsletter I-2 | 2002-05-21 | Spelling correction in VN-65 | |
| Newsletter I-7 | 2005-09-13 | Addition of 3 provinces. Update of list source | Subdivisions added: VN-72 Đắk Nông VN-71 Điện Biên VN-73 Hậu Giang |
| Newsletter II-3 | 2011-12-13 (corrected 2011-12-15) |
Administrative adjustment update, typo corrections and source list update. | Subdivision layout: 5 provinces → 5 municipalities |
| Online Browsing Platform (OBP) |
2013-02-06 | Correct spelling error in French long name | |
| 2014-11-03 | Delete subdivision VN-15; change spelling for all the provinces except for VN-28, VN-30, VN-41 and VN-44; update List Source | Subdivision deleted: VN-15 Ha Tay (Merged into VN-HN in 2008) | |
| 2020-11-24 | Change of spelling of VN-CT, VN-DN, VN-HN, VN-HP, VN-SG; Update List Source | Subdivision renamed: VN-CT Can Tho → Cần Thơ VN-DN Da Nang → Đà Nẵng VN-HN Ha Noi → Hà Nội VN-HP Hai Phong → Hải Phòng VN-SG Ho Chi Minh → Hồ Chí Minh |
See also
- Subdivisions of Vietnam
- FIPS region codes of Vietnam
- Neighbouring countries: CN, KH, LA
External links
- ISO Online Browsing Platform: VN
- Provinces of Vietnam, Statoids.com