ISO 3166-2:IR is the entry for the Islamic Republic of Iran 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 Iran, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 31 provinces.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is IR, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Iran. The second part is two digits.

Current codes

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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 (fa) Subdivision name (fa)[1] Subdivision name (en)[2]
IR-30 Alborz البرز Alborz
IR-24 Ardabīl اردبیل Ardabil
IR-04 Āz̄ārbāyjān-e Ghārbī آذربایجان غربی West Azerbaijan
IR-03 Āz̄ārbāyjān-e Shārqī آذربایجان شرقی East Azerbaijan
IR-18 Būshehr بوشهر Bushehr
IR-14 Chahār Maḩāl va Bakhtīārī چهارمحال و بختیاری Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari
IR-10 Eşfahān اصفهان Isfahan
IR-07 Fārs فارس Fars
IR-01 Gīlān گیلان Gilan
IR-27 Golestān گلستان Golestan
IR-13 Hamadān همدان Hamadan
IR-22 Hormozgān هرمزگان Hormozgan
IR-16 Īlām ایلام Ilam
IR-08 Kermān کرمان Kerman
IR-05 Kermānshāh کرمانشاه Kermanshah
IR-29 Khorāsān-e Jonūbī خراسان جنوبی South Khorasan
IR-09 Khorāsān-e Raẕavī خراسان رضوی Central Khorasan
IR-28 Khorāsān-e Shomālī خراسان شمالی North Khorasan
IR-06 Khūzestān خوزستان Khuzestan
IR-17 Kohgīlūyeh va Bowyer Aḩmad کهگیلویه و بویراحمد Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
IR-12 Kordestān کردستان Kurdistan
IR-15 Lorestān لرستان Lorestan
IR-00 Markazī مرکزی Markazi
IR-02 Māzandarān مازندران Mazandaran
IR-26 Qazvīn قزوین Qazvin
IR-25 Qom قم Qom
IR-20 Semnān سمنان Semnan
IR-11 Sīstān va Balūchestān سیستان و بلوچستان Sistan and Baluchestan
IR-23 Tehrān تهران Tehran
IR-21 Yazd یزد Yazd
IR-19 Zanjān زنجان Zanjan
Notes
  1. ^ For reference only, Persian name in Persian script not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
  2. ^ For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.

Changes

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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. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.

Newsletter Date issued Description of change in newsletter Code/Subdivision change
Newsletter I-2 2002-05-21 Partial reorganization of subdivision layout. Two new provinces. Two name corrections (IR-17 and IR-18). New reference for the list source Subdivisions added:
IR-27 Golestān
IR-28 Qazvīn
Newsletter I-8 2007-04-17 Modification of the administrative structure Subdivisions added:
IR-29 Khorāsān-e Janūbī
IR-30 Khorāsān-e Razavī
IR-31 Khorāsān-e Shemālī
Subdivisions deleted:
IR-09 Khorāsān

The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:

Effective date of change Short description of change (en)
2014-10-30 Add 1 province IR-32; update List Source
2014-12-18 Alignment of the English short name upper and lower case with UNTERM
2020-11-24 Change of subdivision code from IR-01 to IR-03, IR-02 to IR-04, IR-03 to IR-24, IR-04 to IR-10, IR-05 to IR-16, IR-06 to IR-18, IR-07 to IR-23, IR-08 to IR-14, IR-10 to IR-06, IR-11 to IR-19, IR-12 to IR-20, IR-13 to IR-11, IR-14 to IR-07, IR-15 to IR-08, IR-16 to IR-12, IR-17 to IR-05, IR-18 to IR-17, IR-19 to IR-01, IR-20 to IR-15, IR-21 to IR-02, IR-22 to IR-00, IR-23 to IR-22, IR-24 to IR-13, IR-25 to IR-21, IR-26 to IR-25, IR-28 to IR-26, IR-30 to IR-09, IR-31 to IR-28, IR-32 to IR-30; Update Code Source
2024-02-29 Change of short name upper case: replace the parentheses with a comma

See also

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