Entry for Qatar in ISO 3166-2
ISO 3166-2:QA is the entry for Qatar 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 Qatar, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 8 municipalities .
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is QA , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Qatar. The second part is two letters.
Current codes
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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Notes
^ For reference only, Arabic name in Arabic script is not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
^ For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
Changes
The following changes to the entry have been announced in newsletters by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.
Newsletter
Date issued
Description of change in newsletter
Code/Subdivision change
Newsletter II-3
2011-12-13 (corrected 2011-12-15 )
Update resulting from the addition of names in administrative languages, and update of the administrative structure and of the list source
Subdivisions added: QA-ZA Az̧ Za̧`āyin Subdivisions deleted: QA-GH Al Ghuwayrīyah QA-JU Al Jumaylīyah QA-JB Jarīyān al Bāţnah
The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:
Effective date of change
Short description of change (en)
2011-12-13
Update resulting from the addition of names in administrative languages, and update of the administrative structure and of the list source
2017-11-23
Addition of municipality QA-SH
See also
External links
ISO 3166 – codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions
ISO 3166-1 – country codes ISO 3166-2 – country subdivision codes
ISO 3166-3 – codes for former names of countries
a changed from TP
b changed from YU