ISO 3166-2:ZA#II

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

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ISO 3166-2:ZA is the entry for South Africa 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.

ZA hails from Dutch: Zuid-Afrika. Currently for South Africa, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for nine provinces.

Each code consists of two parts separated by a hyphen. The first part is {{mono|ZA}}, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of South Africa. The second part consists of two or three letters indicating the province.

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 codes are used to represent subdivision names in the following administrative languages:

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Code

! Subdivision name (en)

! Language code

! Subdivision name

! Local variant

{{mono|ZA-EC}}

| Eastern Cape

| (af)
(nr)
(nso)
(st)
(ss)
(ts)
(tn)
(ve)
(xh)
(zu)

| Oos-Kaap
iPumalanga-Kapa
Kapa Bohlabela
Kapa Botjhabela

Kapa-Vuxa
Kapa Botlhaba
Kapa Vhubvaḓuvha
Mpuma-Koloni
Mpumalanga-Kapa

|








Mpumalanga-Koloni

{{mono|ZA-FS}}

| Free State

| (af)
(nr)
(nso)
(st)
(ss)
(ts)
(tn)
(ve)
(xh)
(zu)

| Vrystaat
iFreyistata
Freistata
Freistata

Free State
Foreisetata
Fureisitata
Freyistata
Fuleyisitata

|


Foreisetata





Freyisitata

{{mono|ZA-GP}}

| Gauteng

| (af)
(nr)
(nso)
(st)
(ss)
(ts)
(tn)
(ve)
(xh)
(zu)

| Gauteng
iGauteng
Gauteng
Kgauteng
Gauteng
Gauteng
Gauteng
Gauteng
Rhawuti
Gauteng

|

{{mono|ZA-KZN}}

| Kwazulu-Natal

| (af)
(nr)
(nso)
(st)
(ss)
(ts)
(tn)
(ve)
(xh)
(zu)

| KwaZulu-Natal
iKwaZulu-Natal
GaZulu-Natala
Hazolo-Natala
KwaZulu-Natali
Kwazulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
HaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natala
KwaZulu-Natali

|

{{mono|ZA-LP}}

| Limpopo

| (af)
(nr)
(nso)
(st)
(ss)
(ts)
(tn)
(ve)
(xh)
(zu)

| Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo
Vhembe
Limpopo
Limpopo

|

{{mono|ZA-MP}}

| Mpumalanga

| (af)
(nr)
(nso)
(st)
(ss)
(ts)
(tn)
(ve)
(xh)
(zu)

| Mpumalanga
iMpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga

|

{{mono|ZA-NW}}

| North-West

| (af)
(nr)
(nso)
(st)
(ss)
(ts)
(tn)
(ve)
(xh)
(zu)

| Noordwes
iTlhagwini-Tjhingalanga
Lebowa Bodikela
Leboya (le) Bophirima

N'walungu-Vupeladyambu
Bokone Bophirima

Mntla-Ntshona
Nyakatho-Ntshonalanga

|

{{mono|ZA-NC}}

| Northern Cape

| (af)
(nr)
(nso)
(st)
(ss)
(ts)
(tn)
(ve)
(xh)
(zu)

| Noord-Kaap
iTlhagwini-Kapa
Kapa Leboya
Kapa Leboya

Kapa-N'walungu
Kapa Bokone
Kapa Devhula
Mntla-Koloni
Nyakatho-Kapa

|





Kapa Leboa


Nyakatho-Koloni

{{mono|ZA-WC}}

| Western Cape

| (af)
(nr)
(nso)
(st)
(ss)
(ts)
(tn)
(ve)
(xh)
(zu)

| Wes-Kaap
iTjhingalanga-Kapa
Kapa Bodikela
Kapa Bophirimela

Kapa-Vupeladyambu
Kapa Bophirima
Kapa Vhukovhela
Ntshona-Koloni
Ntshonalanga-Kapa

|








Ntshonalanga-Koloni

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:

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Edition/Newsletter

! Date issued

! Description of change

! Code/Subdivision change

id="I-6" | [https://web.archive.org/web/20120112041245/http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_3166-2_newsletter_i-6_en.pdf {{nowrap|Newsletter I-6}}]

| {{nowrap|2004-03-08}}

| Change of name of Northern Province to Limpopo

| style=white-space:nowrap | Subdivision:
{{mono|ZA-NP}} Northern Province → {{mono|ZA-LP}} Limpopo

id="I-9" | [https://www.iso.org/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/archive/pdf/en/newsletter_i-9.pdf {{nowrap|Newsletter I-9}}]

| {{nowrap|2007-11-28}}

| Addition of administrative divisions and their codes

| style=white-space:nowrap | Codes:
(not marked with red colour in newsletter)
Gauteng: {{mono|ZA-GT}} → {{mono|ZA-GP}}
KwaZulu-Natal: {{mono|ZA-NL}} → {{mono|ZA-ZN}}

id="II" | [http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=39718 {{nowrap|ISO 3166-2:2007}}]

| {{nowrap|2007-12-13}}

| Second edition of ISO 3166-2
(not announced in a newsletter)

| style=white-space:nowrap | Codes:
Gauteng: {{mono|ZA-GP}} → {{mono|ZA-GT}}
KwaZulu-Natal: {{mono|ZA-ZN}} → {{mono|ZA-NL}}

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

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! Effective date of change

! Description of change

! Code/Subdivision change

{{nowrap|2020-03-02}}

| Change of subdivision code from ZA-GT to ZA-GP, ZA-NL to ZA-KZN; Update Code Source

| Codes:
{{mono|ZA-GT}} → {{mono|ZA-GP}}
{{mono|ZA-NL}} → {{mono|ZA-KZN}}

See also