ISO 3166-2:PA

ISO 3166-2:PA is the entry for Panama 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 Panama, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 10 provinces and 4 indigenous regions.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is PA, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Panama. The second part is either of the following:

  • one or two digits (1–10): provinces
  • two letters: indigenous regions

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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Code Subdivision name (es) Subdivision name (en) [note 1] Subdivision category
PA-1 Bocas del Toro Bocas del Toro province
PA-4 Chiriquí Chiriqui province
PA-2 Coclé Cocle province
PA-3 Colón Colon province
PA-5 Darién Darien province
PA-EM Emberá Embera indigenous region
PA-KY Guna Yala
(local variant: Kuna Yala) 		Guna Yala indigenous region
PA-6 Herrera Herrera province
PA-7 Los Santos Los Santos province
PA-NT Naso Tjër Di Naso Tjer Di indigenous region
PA-NB Ngäbe-Buglé Ngabe-Bugle indigenous region
PA-8 Panamá Panama province
PA-10 Panamá Oeste West Panama province
PA-9 Veraguas Veraguas province
Notes
  1. ^ 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-2 2010-06-30 Update of the administrative structure and of the list source Subdivisions added:
PA-EM Emberá
PA-NB Ngöbe-Buglé
Codes:
PA-0 Comarca de San Blas → PA-KY Kuna Yala

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)
2010-06-30 Update of the administrative structure and of the list source
2014-11-03 Add 1 province PA-10; update List Source
2017-11-23 Change of subdivision name of PA-KY; addition of local variation of PA-KY, update List Source
2021-11-25 Addition of indigenous region PA-NT; Update List Source
2022-11-29 Change of spelling of subdivision name of PA-NB; Update List Source

See also