Entry for the United States Minor Outlying Islands in ISO 3166-2
ISO 3166-2:UM is the entry for the United States Minor Outlying Islands in ISO 3166-2 , a 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 the United States Minor Outlying Islands, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for nine "islands, groups of islands ".
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is UM , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the United States Minor Outlying Islands. The second part is two digits, which is the old FIPS 5-2 numeric code of the island or group of islands.
As an outlying area of the United States , the United States Minor Outlying Islands are also assigned the ISO 3166-2 code US-UM under the entry for the United States .
ISO 3166-2:UM does not include Bajo Nuevo Bank and Serranilla Bank in the Caribbean Sea , both of which are claimed by the United States but administered by Colombia .
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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See also
External links
ISO 3166 – codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions
ISO 3166-1 – country codes ISO 3166-2 – country subdivision codes
ISO 3166-3 – codes for former names of countries
a changed from TP
b changed from YU