Entry for Pakistan in ISO 3166-2
ISO 3166-2:PK is the entry for Pakistan 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 Pakistan, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 1 federal capital territory, 4 provinces, and 2 Pakistan administered areas . The Islamabad Capital Territory contains the capital of the country Islamabad and has special status equal to the provinces and territory.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is PK , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Pakistan. 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).
ISO 639-1 codes are used to represent subdivision names in the following administrative languages :
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Code
Subdivision name (ur ) (BGN/PCGN 2007)
Subdivision name (ur ) [ note 1]
Subdivision name (en )
Subdivision category
PK-JK
Āzād Jammūñ o Kashmīr
آزاد جموں و کشمیر
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (local variant: AJ&K)
Pakistan administered area
PK-BA
Balōchistān
بلوچستان
Balochistan
province
PK-GB
Gilgit-Baltistān
گلگت بلتستان
Gilgit-Baltistan
Pakistan administered area
PK-IS
Islāmābād
وفاقی دارالحکومت
Islamabad
federal capital territory
PK-KP
Khaībar Pakhtūnkhwā
خیبر پختونخوا
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
province
PK-PB
Panjāb
پنجاب
Punjab
province
PK-SD
Sindh
سِنْدھ
Sindh
province
Notes
^ For reference only, Urdu name in Urdu script not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
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-3
2011-12-13 (corrected 2011-12-15 )
Name change, language readjustment and source list update.
Codes: PK-NW North-West Frontier → PK-KP Khyber Pakhtunkhwa PK-NA Northern Areas → PK-GB Gilgit-Baltistan
Online Browsing Platform (OBP)
2015-11-27
Addition of romanization system for urd
2017-11-23
Change of spelling of category name from ilaqa to ‘alāqahilaqa, from suba to sūbah, from wafaqi dar-ul-hakumat ka ilaqa to wafāqī dār al ḩikūmat ‘alāqah; change of subdivision name of PK-JK (eng & urd); addition of local variation of PK-JK in eng; update List Source
(TBD)
2019-11-22
Deletion of territory PK-TA; Update List Source
(TBD)
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