ISO 3166-2:LK is the entry for Sri Lanka 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 Sri Lanka, ISO codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions: 9 provinces 25 districts
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the Sri Lanka. The second part is either of the following: one digit (1–9): provinces two digits: districts
For the districts, the first digit is the second part of the ISO code of the province where the district is in.
Current codes
Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 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: (si): Sinhalese (ta): Tamil (en): English
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Provinces
Districts
Changes
The following changes to the entry have been announced in newsletters by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO in 1998. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.
The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform: