Entry for the Marshall Islands in ISO 3166-2
ISO 3166-2:MH is the entry for the Marshall Islands 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 the Marshall Islands, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:
The municipalities are inhabited atolls or islands. The ten uninhabited atolls and islands of the country are not listed:
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is MH , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the Marshall Islands. The second part is either of the following:
one letter: chains (of islands)
three 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).
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Chains (of islands)
Municipalities
Changes
The following changes to the entry have been announced in newsletters by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998:
Newsletter
Date issued
Description of change in newsletter
Code/Subdivision change
Newsletter II-1
2010-02-03 (corrected 2010-02-19 )
Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, addition of names in administrative languages
Subdivisions added: MH-JAB Jabat Subdivisions deleted: MH-UJL Ujelang
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