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ISO 3166-2 KR

The ISO 3166-2 standard for South Korea (ISO 3166-1: KR) assigns codes to 1 special city, 6 metropolitan cities, and 9 provinces.

The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such, or anywhere where a short alphanumeric code can serve to clearly indicate a location in a more convenient and less ambiguous form than the full place name. US readers may wish to consider them as the equivalent of worldwide zip or postal codes. Within the BambooWeb, the codes from the country pages link to the pages for the locations they identify.

Code system: "KR-" + 2-character-numeric

Latest change: ISO 3166-2:2000-06-21

Encoding list (16)

Note: Names are not spelled according to the ISO list, but to the official Revised Romanization of Korean as used in South Korea.

Special and Metropolitan Cities (7)

• KR-11 Seoul Special City
• KR-26 Busan Metropolitan City
• KR-27 Daegu Metropolitan City
• KR-28 Incheon Metropolitan City
• KR-29 Gwangju Metropolitan City
• KR-30 Daejeon Metropolitan City
• KR-31 Ulsan Metropolitan City

Provinces (9)

• KR-41 Gyeonggi-do
• KR-42 Gangwon-do
• KR-43 Chungcheongbuk-do
• KR-44 Chungcheongnam-do
• KR-45 Jeollabuk-do
• KR-46 Jeollanam-do
• KR-47 Gyeongsangbuk-do
• KR-48 Gyeongsangnam-do
• KR-49 Jeju-do

See also

• Administrative divisions of South Korea
• ISO 3166-1, the reference table for all country codes, as used for domain names on the Internet.
• ISO 3166-2, the reference table for all country region codes.
• ISO 3166-2:KP, ISO codes for cities, regions, and provinces in North Korea