ISO 3166-2:FR is the entry for France 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 France, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for the following subdivisions:
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of France. The second part is either of the following:
The metropolitan departments use their INSEE codes, which are currently used in postal codes, and used in vehicle registration plates until 2009. INSEE codes are assigned as follows:
01
–89
except 20
: departments created before the 20th century, assigned in alphabetical order (prefixes in the form of "Bas-" and "Haute-" are ignored at the primary sort level), except Paris and Yvelines, which replaced the former departments Seine and Seine-et-Oise respectively after the reorganization of the Paris region in 1968;90
: Territoire de Belfort, which was given department status in 1922;91
–95
: departments created after the reorganization of the Paris region in 1968;2A
and 2B
: Corse-du-Sud and Haute-Corse, which were created after the division of Corsica in 1975, whose INSEE code was 20
.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 (fr) | Subdivision name (en) | Subdivision category | |
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Auvergne-Rhone-Alps | metropolitan region | |||
Burgundy-Free County | metropolitan region | |||
Brittany | metropolitan region | |||
Center-Loire Valley | metropolitan region | |||
Corsica | metropolitan collectivity with special status | |||
Great East | metropolitan region | |||
Upper France | metropolitan region | |||
Paris | metropolitan region | |||
Normandy | metropolitan region | |||
New Aquitania | metropolitan region | |||
Occitania | metropolitan region | |||
Loire Country | metropolitan region | |||
Provence-Alps-French Riviera | metropolitan region |
Code | Subdivision name (fr) | Subdivision category | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ain | metropolitan department | ||||
Aisne | metropolitan department | ||||
Allier | metropolitan department | ||||
Upper Provence Alps | metropolitan department | ||||
Maritime Alps | metropolitan department | ||||
Alsace | European collectivity | ||||
Ardeche | metropolitan department | ||||
Ardennes | metropolitan department | ||||
Ariege | metropolitan department | ||||
Aube | metropolitan department | ||||
Aude | metropolitan department | ||||
Aveyron | metropolitan department | ||||
Rhone Delta | metropolitan department | ||||
Calvados | metropolitan department | ||||
Cantal | metropolitan department | ||||
Charente | metropolitan department | ||||
Maritime Charente | metropolitan department | ||||
Cher | metropolitan department | ||||
Correze | metropolitan department | ||||
Southern Corsica | metropolitan department | ||||
Gold Coast | metropolitan department | ||||
Sea Coasts | metropolitan department | ||||
Creuse | metropolitan department | ||||
Two Sevres | metropolitan department | ||||
Dordogne | metropolitan department | ||||
Doubs | metropolitan department | ||||
Drome | metropolitan department | ||||
Essonne | metropolitan department | ||||
Eure | metropolitan department | ||||
Eure and Loir | metropolitan department | ||||
Finistere | metropolitan department | ||||
Gard | metropolitan department | ||||
Gers | metropolitan department | ||||
Gironde | metropolitan department | ||||
Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe | overseas departmental collectivity | - | ||
French Guiana | French Guiana | overseas unique territorial collectivity | - | ||
Upper Corsica | metropolitan department | ||||
Upper Garonne | metropolitan department | ||||
Upper Loire | metropolitan department | ||||
Upper Marne | metropolitan department | ||||
Upper Saone | metropolitan department | ||||
Upper Savoy | metropolitan department | ||||
Upper Vienne | metropolitan department | ||||
Upper Alps | metropolitan department | ||||
Upper Pyrenees | metropolitan department | ||||
Upper Seine | metropolitan department | ||||
Herault | metropolitan department | ||||
Ille and Vilaine | metropolitan department | ||||
Indre | metropolitan department | ||||
Indre and Loire | metropolitan department | ||||
Isere | metropolitan department | ||||
Jura | Jura | metropolitan department | |||
Reunion | overseas departmental collectivity | - | |||
Landes | metropolitan department | ||||
Loir and Cher | metropolitan department | ||||
Loire | metropolitan department | ||||
Atlantic Loire | metropolitan department | ||||
Loiret | metropolitan department | ||||
Lot | metropolitan department | ||||
Lot and Garonne | metropolitan department | ||||
Lozere | metropolitan department | ||||
Maine and Loire | metropolitan department | ||||
Manche | metropolitan department | ||||
Marne | metropolitan department | ||||
Martinique | Martinique | overseas unique territorial collectivity | - | ||
Mayenne | metropolitan department | ||||
Mayotte | Mayotte | overseas departmental collectivity | - | ||
Lyon | metropolitan collectivity with special status | ||||
Meurthe and Moselle | metropolitan department | ||||
Meuse | metropolitan department | ||||
Morbihan | metropolitan department | ||||
Moselle | metropolitan department | ||||
Nievre | metropolitan department | ||||
North | metropolitan department | ||||
Oise | metropolitan department | ||||
Orne | metropolitan department | ||||
Paris City | metropolitan collectivity with special status | ||||
Calais Passage | metropolitan department | ||||
Dome Hill | metropolitan department | ||||
Atlantic Pyrenees | metropolitan department | ||||
Oriental Pyrenees | metropolitan department | ||||
[1] | Rhone | metropolitan department | |||
Saone and Loire | metropolitan department | ||||
Sarthe | metropolitan department | ||||
Savoy | metropolitan department | ||||
Seine and Marne | metropolitan department | ||||
Maritime Seine | metropolitan department | ||||
Saint Denis Seine | metropolitan department | ||||
Somme | metropolitan department | ||||
Tarn | metropolitan department | ||||
Tarn and Garonne | metropolitan department | ||||
Belfort Territory | metropolitan department | ||||
Oise Valley | metropolitan department | ||||
Marne Valley | metropolitan department | ||||
Var | metropolitan department | ||||
Vaucluse | metropolitan department | ||||
Vendee | metropolitan department | ||||
Vienne | metropolitan department | ||||
Vosges | metropolitan department | ||||
Yonne | metropolitan department | ||||
Yvelines | metropolitan department |
Code | Subdivision name (fr) | Subdivision name (en) | Subdivision category | In subdivision | |
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Lower Rhine | metropolitan department | ||||
Upper Rhine | metropolitan department |
Code | Subdivision name (fr) | Subdivision name (en) | Subdivision category | |
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Clipperton | dependency | |||
New Caledonia | overseas collectivity with special status | |||
French Polynesia | overseas collectivity | |||
Saint Barts | overseas collectivity | |||
Saint Martin | overseas collectivity | |||
Saint Peter and Miquelon | overseas collectivity | |||
French Southern Territories | overseas territory | |||
Wallis and Futuna | overseas collectivity |
Besides being included as subdivisions of France in ISO 3166-2, several subdivisions are also officially assigned their own country codes in ISO 3166-1.
Code | Subdivision name (fr) | ISO 3166-1 English name | ISO 3166-1 French name | ISO 3166-2 code | |
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Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe | |||
Guyane (française) | French Guiana | Guyane française | |||
La Réunion | Réunion | Réunion | |||
Martinique | Martinique | Martinique | |||
Mayotte | Mayotte | Mayotte | |||
Nouvelle-Calédonie | New Caledonia | Nouvelle-Calédonie | |||
Polynésie française | French Polynesia | Polynésie française | |||
Saint-Barthélemy | Saint Barthélemy | Saint-Barthélemy | |||
Saint-Martin | Saint Martin (French part) | Saint-Martin (partie française) | |||
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon | Saint Pierre and Miquelon | Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon | |||
Terres australes françaises[2] | French Southern Territories | Terres australes françaises | |||
Wallis-et-Futuna | Wallis and Futuna | Wallis-et-Futuna |
The dependency Clipperton Island is also exceptionally reserved the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code on the request of the International Telecommunication Union.
Metropolitan France (the part of France located in Europe) was previously officially assigned its own set of country codes in ISO 3166-1, with alpha-2 code, before it was deleted from ISO 3166-1. The code is now exceptionally reserved on the request of France.
The following changes to the entry have been announced by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO in 1998. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.
Source | Date issued | Description of change | Code/Subdivision change | |
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Correction of the Metropolitan region code in FR-79 | ||||
Addition of administrative subdivisions and of their code elements | style=white-space:nowrap | Subdivisions added: Clipperton Saint-Barthélemy Saint-Martin | ||
(corrected ) | Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, alphabetical re-ordering | |||
(corrected ) | NL II-2 correction for ultramarine administrative organisation change and alphabetical re-ordering. | style=white-space:nowrap | Category change: Mayotte overseas territorial collectivity → overseas department | |
Online Browsing Platform (OBP) | Change of the delimitation of the regions, reducing their number from 22 to 13 in metropolitan France, change of parent subdivision of metropolitan departments; addition of overseas regions FR-GUA, FR-LRE, FR-MAY; change of subdivision category from overseas department to overseas territorial collectivity for FR-GF,[3] FR-MQ; update List Source. | style=white-space:nowrap | Subdivisions added: Guadeloupe La Réunion Mayotte Category change: overseas department → overseas territorial collectivity overseas department → overseas territorial collectivity | |
Correction of the OBP entry error as follows: deletion of Clipperton Island, France, Metropolitan in the name field for Territory. | ||||
Correction of parent subdivision of FR-02, FR-60, FR-80 from FR-PDL to FR-HDF | Parent changes: → → → | |||
2018-11-26 | Addition of category name "collectivity" in eng/fra; Change of category name from metropolitan region to collectivity for FR-COR; Update List Source | Category change: metropolitan region → collectivity | ||
2020-11-24 | Change of category name from collectivity to metropolitan collectivity with special status for FR-COR; Change of category name from overseas department to overseas region for FR-GP, FR-RE, FR-YT; Deletion of parent subdivision of FR-GP, FR-RE, FR-YT; Change of category name from overseas region to overseas department for FR-GUA, FR-LRE, FR-MAY; Change of subdivision code from FR-COR to FR-20R, FR-GUA to FR-971, FR-LRE to FR-974, FR-MAY to FR-976; Assign parent subdivision to FR-971, FR-974, FR-976; Change of parent subdivision of FR-972, FR-973; Change of category name from overseas territorial collectivity to overseas collectivity for FR-BL, FR-MF, FR-PF, FR-PM, FR-WF; Addition of category overseas territory with specific status, overseas territory; Change of category name from overseas territorial collectivity to overseas collectivity with special status for FR-NC; Change of category name from overseas territorial collectivity to overseas territory for FR-TF; Update List Source and Code Source | Category changes: collectivity → metropolitan collectivity with special status overseas department → overseas region overseas department → overseas region overseas department → overseas region overseas region → overseas department overseas region → overseas department overseas region → overseas department overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity with special status overseas territorial collectivity → overseas territory Code changes: → → → → Subdivisions added: Martinique (parent) Guyane (française) (parent) | ||
2021-11-25 | Addition of category European collectivity in eng & fra; Addition of European collectivity FR-6AE; Addition of metropolitan collectivity with special status FR-69M; Change of category name from metropolitan department to metropolitan collectivity with special status for FR-75; Change of subdivision code from FR-75 to FR-75C; Addition of category overseas departmental collectivity in English & French; Change of category name from overseas department to overseas departmental collectivity for FR-971, FR-974, FR-976; Addition of category overseas unique territorial collectivity in eng & fra; Change of category name from overseas department to overseas unique territorial collectivity for FR-972, FR-973; Deletion of category name overseas department; Deletion of overseas region FR-GF, FR-GP, FR-MQ, FR-RE, FR-YT; Deletion of category name overseas region; Change of parent subdivision of FR-67, FR-68; Deletion of parent subdivision of FR-971, FR-972, FR-973, FR-974, FR-976; Modification of Remark part 2; Update List Source and Code Source | Codes added: Alsace Métropole de Lyon Codes changed: Paris (metropolitan department) → Paris (metropolitan collectivity with special status) Codes removed: Guyane (française) Guadeloupe Martinique La Réunion Mayotte Category changes: overseas department → overseas departmental collectivity overseas department → overseas unique territorial collectivity overseas department → overseas unique territorial collectivity overseas department → overseas departmental collectivity overseas department → overseas departmental collectivity Parent changes: → → |
FR-69
code in ISO 316-2 still covers the department of Rhône as it was before 1 January 2015 when it was split in two parts, one of which is no longer a department but a métropole with specific status. Still, the Métropole de Lyon and the new department of Rhône are administratively managed by the French state as a single circonscription départementale (departmental constituency) that keeps the old department code.69
to cover the new circonscription départementale du Rhône for the state-controlled administration in its préfecture (covering the whole former département du Rhône before January 2015), and assigned new codes for the two separate local collectivities: 69D
for the new (smaller) département du Rhône, and 69M
for the new Métropole de Lyon.TF
code or ISO 3166-2 FR-TF
code, but by the ISO 3166-1 AQ
code. The French Southern Lands (Terres australes françaises in French) are referring to only 3 of the 5 districts in the overseas territorial collectivity, excluding the claimed district in the Antarctic and the district of Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean (Îles Éparses de l'Océan Indien). Some applications used by other countries than France or international organizations may or may not include the two contested districts, but most of them include the Scattered Islands, including the ISO 3166 standard itself.