ISO 3166-2:IT
ISO 3166-2:IT is the entry for Italy 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.
Elements
Currently for Italy, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:
- 15 regions and 5 autonomous regions
- 80 provinces, 2 autonomous provinces, 6 free municipal consortia and 14 metropolitan cities
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is IT, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Italy. The second part is either of the following:
- two digits: regions
- two letters: provinces, free municipal consortia and metropolitan cities
For the regions, the first digit indicates the geographical region where the subdivision is in:
- 2, 3, 4: Northern Italy
- 5: Central Italy (excluding Lazio)
- 6, 7: Southern Italy (including Lazio)
- 8: Insular Italy
For provinces, the two-letter part is an abbreviation of the province name, such as 'PG' for Perugia, although, as an exception, the code for former Medio Campidano (IT-VS) whose name was based on its two capitals, Villacidro and Sanluri.
Vehicle registration plates
The two-letter provincial codes were used in vehicle registration plates between 1905 and 1994 (except for Rome, whose vehicle code has always been ROMA instead of RM).
In 1994, a new universal notation was introduced, dropping the province code entirely. This proved to be unpopular, and the two-letter code (or "ROMA") has been allowed to be added to a new, EU-style, blue border of the plates since 1999.
Current codes
Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).
ISO 639-1 codes are used to represent subdivision names in the following administrative languages:
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Regions
Code | Subdivision name (it) | Subdivision name (en)[note 1] |
---|---|---|
IT-65 | ![]() |
Abruzzo |
IT-77 | ![]() |
Basilicata |
IT-78 | ![]() |
Calabria |
IT-72 | ![]() |
Campania |
IT-45 | ![]() |
Emilia-Romagna |
IT-62 | ![]() |
Lazio |
IT-42 | ![]() |
Liguria |
IT-25 | ![]() |
Lombardy |
IT-57 | ![]() |
Marche |
IT-67 | ![]() |
Molise |
IT-21 | ![]() |
Piedmont |
IT-75 | ![]() |
Apulia |
IT-52 | ![]() |
Tuscany |
IT-55 | ![]() |
Umbria |
IT-34 | ![]() |
Veneto |
- Notes
- For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
Autonomous regions
Code | Subdivision name (it)[note 1] | Subdivision name (en)[note 2] |
---|---|---|
IT-36 | ![]() |
Friuli Venezia Giulia |
IT-88 | ![]() |
Sardinia |
IT-82 | ![]() |
Sicily |
IT-32 | ![]() |
Trentino-South Tyrol |
IT-23 | ![]() |
Aosta Valley |
- Notes
- Names are in Italian (it) except where noted.
- For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
Provinces
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 I-1 | 2000-06-21 | Correction of spelling mistakes of names of 2 provinces | |
Newsletter I-8 | 2007-04-17 | Modification of the administrative structure | Subdivisions added: IT-CI Carbonia-Iglesias IT-VS Medio Campidano IT-OG Ogliastra IT-OT Olbia-Tempio |
Newsletter II-1 | 2010-02-03 (corrected 2010-02-19) |
Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, administrative update | Subdivisions added: IT-BT Barletta-Andria-Trani IT-FM Fermo IT-MB Monza e Brianza Codes: IT-FO Forlì → IT-FC Forlì-Cesena |
Newsletter II-2 | 2010-06-30 | Corrections from Newsletters I-1 and I-8 | Codes: (to correct inconsistencies between newsletters) Medio Campidano: IT-MA → IT-VS Olbia-Tempio IT-OL → IT-OT Pesaro e Urbino IT-PS → IT-PU |
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2019-04-09 | Addition of province IT-SD; Addition of category names free communal consortia and metropolitan cities in eng,fra and ita; Change of category name from province to free communal consortia for IT-AG, IT-CL, IT-EN, IT-RG, IT-SR, IT-TP; Change of category name from province to metropolitan city for IT-BA, IT-BO, IT-CA, IT-CT, IT-FI, IT-GE, IT-ME, IT-MI, IT-NA, IT-PA, IT-RC, IT-RM, IT-TO, IT-VE; Deletion of provinces IT-CI, IT-GO, IT-OG, IT-OT, IT-PN, IT-TS, IT-UD, IT-VS; Update List Source | Subdivisions deleted: 8 provinces (see below) Subdivisions added: IT-SD Sud Sardegna Category changes: IT-AG, IT-CL, IT-EN, IT-RG, IT-SR, IT-TP: province → free communal consortia IT-BA, IT-BO, IT-CA, IT-CT, IT-FI, IT-GE, IT-ME, IT-MI, IT-NA, IT-PA, IT-RC, IT-RM, IT-TO, IT-VE: province → metropolitan city |
2019-11-22 | Change of spelling of IT-36; Deletion of province IT-AO; Change of spelling of category name in eng from free communal consortia to free municipal consortium; Change of spelling of category name in ita from libero consorzion communale to libero consorzio comunale ; Change of spelling of category name in ita from città metropolitan to città metropolitana; Addition of category name autonomous region and autonomous province; Change of category name from region to autonomous region for IT-23, IT-32, IT-36, IT-82, IT-88; Change of category name from province to autonomous province for IT-BZ, IT-TN; Update List Source | Name changes: IT-36 Friuli-Venezia Giulia → Friuli Venezia Giulia free communal consortia → free municipal consortium Subdivisions deleted: IT-AO Aosta Category changes: IT-23, IT-32, IT-36, IT-82, IT-88: region → autonomous region IT-BZ, IT-TN: province → autonomous province |
Codes deleted on 9 April 2019
Code | Subdivision name | In region | Absorbed by |
---|---|---|---|
IT-CI | Carbonia-Iglesias | 88 | SD |
IT-GO | Gorizia | 36 | 36[note 1] |
IT-VS | Medio Campidano | 88 | SD |
IT-OG | Ogliastra | 88 | NU, SD |
IT-OT | Olbia-Tempio | 88 | SS |
IT-PN | Pordenone | 36 | 36[note 1] |
IT-TS | Trieste | 36 | 36[note 1] |
IT-UD | Udine | 36 | 36[note 1] |
- These provinces have been broken into inter-communal territorial unions, which are collectively represented in ISO 3166-2:IT as the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia.
See also
- Subdivisions of Italy
- FIPS region codes of Italy
- NUTS codes of Italy