ISO 3166-2:NP

ISO 3166-2:NP is the entry for Nepal 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.

Main article: ISO 3166-2

Currently for Nepal, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for three levels of subdivisions:

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is NP, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Nepal. The second part is either of the following:

  • one digit (1–5): development regions
  • two letters: zones
  • P followed by one digit (1–7): provinces

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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Development regions
Code Subdivision name (ne) Subdivision name (en)
NP-1 Madhyamanchal Central
NP-2 Madhya Pashchimanchal Mid Western
NP-3 Pashchimanchal Western
NP-4 Purwanchal Eastern
NP-5 Sudur Pashchimanchal Far Western

Provinces
Code Subdivision (ne) Subdivision (en)
Name Local variant Name Local variant
NP-P1 Pradesh 1 Province 1
NP-P2 Pradesh 2 Province 2
NP-P3 Bagmati Pradesh Pradesh 3 Bagmati Province 3
NP-P4 Gandaki Pradesh Pradesh 4 Gandaki Province 4
NP-P5 Pradesh 5 Province 5
NP-P6 Karnali Pradesh Pradesh 6 Karnali Province 6
NP-P7 Sudurpashchim Pradesh Pradesh 7 Sudurpashchim Province 7

Zones
Code Subdivision name (ne) In development region
NP-BA Bagmati 1
NP-BH Bheri 2
NP-DH Dhawalagiri 3
NP-GA Gandaki 3
NP-JA Janakpur 1
NP-KA Karnali 2
NP-KO Kosi
(local variant is Koshi)		 4
NP-LU Lumbini 3
NP-MA Mahakali 5
NP-ME Mechi 4
NP-NA Narayani 1
NP-RA Rapti 2
NP-SA Sagarmatha 4
NP-SE Seti 5

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
Newsletter II-1 2010-02-03
(corrected
2010-02-19)		 Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element
Newsletter II-3 2011-12-13
(corrected
2011-12-15)		 First level prefix addition, language adjustment, comment addition, deletion of the romanization system and source list update.
Online Browsing
Platform (OBP)		 2018-11-26 Correction of the romanization system label; Addition of provinces NP-P1, NP-P2, NP-P3, NP-P4, NP-P5, NP-P6, NP-P7; Addition of local variation for NP-P4 and NP-P6; Update List Source; Addition of remark
2019-11-22 Update Code Source
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See also
  • Subdivisions of Nepal
  • FIPS region codes of Nepal
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