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ISO 3166-2:MW

{{Short description|Entry for Malawi in ISO 3166-2}}

ISO 3166-2:MW is the entry for Malawi 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 Malawi, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:

Each code consists of two parts separated by a hyphen. The first part is {{mono|MW}}, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Malawi. The second part is either of the following:

  • one letter: regions
  • two letters: districts

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=

class="wikitable sortable"
Code

! Subdivision name (ny)

! Subdivision name (en)

{{mono|MW-N}}

| Chakumpoto

| Northern Region

{{mono|MW-S}}

| Chakumwera

| Southern Region

{{mono|MW-C}}

| Chapakati

| Central Region

=Districts=

class="wikitable sortable"
Code

! Subdivision name (ny, en)

! In region

{{mono|MW-BA}}

| Balaka

| Southern Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-BL}}

| Blantyre

| Southern Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-CK}}

| Chikwawa

| Southern Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-CR}}

| Chiradzulu

| Southern Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-CT}}

| Chitipa

| Northern Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-DE}}

| Dedza

| Central Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-DO}}

| Dowa

| Central Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-KR}}

| Karonga

| Northern Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-KS}}

| Kasungu

| Central Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-LK}}

| Likoma

| Northern Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-LI}}

| Lilongwe

| Central Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-MH}}

| Machinga

| Southern Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-MG}}

| Mangochi

| Southern Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-MC}}

| Mchinji

| Central Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-MU}}

| Mulanje

| Southern Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-MW}}

| Mwanza

| Southern Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-MZ}}

| Mzimba

| Northern Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-NE}}

| Neno

| Southern Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-NB}}

| Nkhata Bay

| Northern Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-NK}}

| Nkhotakota

| Central Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-NS}}

| Nsanje

| Southern Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-NU}}

| Ntcheu

| Central Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-NI}}

| Ntchisi

| Central Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-PH}}

| Phalombe

| Southern Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-RU}}

| Rumphi

| Northern Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-SA}}

| Salima

| Central Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-TH}}

| Thyolo

| Southern Region (Malawi)

{{mono|MW-ZO}}

| Zomba

| Southern Region (Malawi)

Changes

The following changes to the entry have been announced in newsletters by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO {{not a typo|3166-2}} in 1998:

class="wikitable"
Newsletter

! Date issued

! Description of change in newsletter

! Code/Subdivision change

id="I-2" | [https://web.archive.org/web/20120131102127/http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_3166-2_newsletter_i-2_en.pdf {{nowrap|Newsletter I-2}}]

| {{nowrap|2002-05-21}}

| Addition of three districts. List source updated

| style=white-space:nowrap | Subdivisions added:
{{mono|MW-BA}} Balaka
{{mono|MW-LK}} Likoma Island
{{mono|MW-PH}} Phalombe

id="II-2" | [https://www.iso.org/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/archive/pdf/en/iso_3166-2_newsletter_ii-2_2010-06-30.pdf {{nowrap|Newsletter II-2}}]

| {{nowrap|2010-06-30}}

| Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, addition of names in administrative languages, typographical error correction, update of the administrative structure and of the list source

| style=white-space:nowrap | Subdivisions added:
{{mono|MW-NE}} Neno

See also

External links

  • [https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:MW ISO Online Browsing Platform: MW]
  • [http://www.statoids.com/umw.html Districts of Malawi], Statoids.com

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