ISO 3166-2:CL

ISO 3166-2:CL is the entry for Chile 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 Chile, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 16 regions.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is CL, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Chile. The second part is two 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 (es) Local variant Subdivision name (en)[1] Number[2]
CL-AI Aisén del General Carlos Ibañez del Campo Aysén; Aisén Aisen XI
CL-AN Antofagasta Antofagasta II
CL-AP Arica y Parinacota Arica and Parinacota XV
CL-AT Atacama Atacama III
CL-BI Biobío Biobio VIII
CL-CO Coquimbo Coquimbo IV
CL-AR La Araucanía La Araucania IX
CL-LI Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins O'Higgins O'Higgins VI
CL-LL Los Lagos The Lakes X
CL-LR Los Ríos The Rivers XIV
CL-MA Magallanes Magellan XII
CL-ML Maule Maule VII
CL-NB Ñuble Nuble XVI
CL-RM Región Metropolitana de Santiago Santiago Metropolitan Region XIII
CL-TA Tarapacá Tarapaca I
CL-VS Valparaíso Valparaiso V

Notes

  1. ^ For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
  2. ^ For reference only: previously used roman numeral as the official designation of the region.

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 II-2 2010-06-30 Update of the administrative structure and of the list source Subdivisions added:
CL-AP Arica y Parinacota
CL-LR Los Ríos
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Platform (OBP) 		2014-10-29 Change spelling of CL-AI and CL-BI; update List Source Spelling changes:
CL-AI, CL-BI
2016-11-15 Change of spelling of CL-AR, CL-AI; addition of local variation of CL-AI, CL-LI; update list source Spelling changes:
CL-AI, CL-AR
2018-11-26 Addition of region CL-NB; Update List Source Subdivisions added:
CL-NB Ñuble

See also