Entry for South Africa in ISO 3166-2
ISO 3166-2:ZA is the entry for South Africa 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 .
ZA hails from Dutch : Zuid-Afrika . Currently for South Africa, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 9 provinces .
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is ZA , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of South Africa. The second part consists of two or three letters indicating the province.
Current codes
Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).
ISO 639 codes are used to represent subdivision names in the following administrative languages :
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Code
Subdivision name (en )
Language code
Subdivision name
Local variant
ZA-EC
Eastern Cape
(af) (nr) (nso) (st) (ss) (ts) (tn) (ve) (xh) (zu)
Oos-Kaap iPumalanga-Kapa Kapa Bohlabela Kapa Botjhabela Kapa-Vuxa Kapa Botlhaba Kapa Vhubvaḓuvha Mpuma-Koloni Mpumalanga-Kapa
Mpumalanga-Koloni
ZA-FS
Free State
(af) (nr) (nso) (st) (ss) (ts) (tn) (ve) (xh) (zu)
Vrystaat iFreyistata Freistata Freistata Free State Foreisetata Fureisitata Freyistata Fuleyisitata
Foreisetata Freyisitata
ZA-GP
Gauteng
(af) (nr) (nso) (st) (ss) (ts) (tn) (ve) (xh) (zu)
Gauteng iGauteng Gauteng Kgauteng Gauteng Gauteng Gauteng Gauteng Rhawuti Gauteng
ZA-KZN
Kwazulu-Natal
(af) (nr) (nso) (st) (ss) (ts) (tn) (ve) (xh) (zu)
KwaZulu-Natal iKwaZulu-Natal GaZulu-Natala Hazolo-Natala KwaZulu-Natali Kwazulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal HaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natala KwaZulu-Natali
ZA-LP
Limpopo
(af) (nr) (nso) (st) (ss) (ts) (tn) (ve) (xh) (zu)
Limpopo Limpopo Limpopo Limpopo Limpopo Limpopo Limpopo Vhembe Limpopo Limpopo
ZA-MP
Mpumalanga
(af) (nr) (nso) (st) (ss) (ts) (tn) (ve) (xh) (zu)
Mpumalanga iMpumalanga Mpumalanga Mpumalanga Mpumalanga Mpumalanga Mpumalanga Mpumalanga Mpumalanga Mpumalanga
ZA-NW
North-West
(af) (nr) (nso) (st) (ss) (ts) (tn) (ve) (xh) (zu)
Noordwes iTlhagwini-Tjhingalanga Lebowa Bodikela Leboya (le) Bophirima N'walungu-Vupeladyambu Bokone Bophirima Mntla-Ntshona Nyakatho-Ntshonalanga
ZA-NC
Northern Cape
(af) (nr) (nso) (st) (ss) (ts) (tn) (ve) (xh) (zu)
Noord-Kaap iTlhagwini-Kapa Kapa Leboya Kapa Leboya Kapa-N'walungu Kapa Bokone Kapa Devhula Mntla-Koloni Nyakatho-Kapa
Kapa Leboa Nyakatho-Koloni
ZA-WC
Western Cape
(af) (nr) (nso) (st) (ss) (ts) (tn) (ve) (xh) (zu)
Wes-Kaap iTjhingalanga-Kapa Kapa Bodikela Kapa Bophirimela Kapa-Vupeladyambu Kapa Bophirima Kapa Vhukovhela Ntshona-Koloni Ntshonalanga-Kapa
Ntshonalanga-Koloni
Changes
The following changes to the entry have been announced by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998:
Edition/Newsletter
Date issued
Description of change
Code/Subdivision change
Newsletter I-6
2004-03-08
Change of name of Northern Province to Limpopo
Subdivision: ZA-NP Northern Province → ZA-LP Limpopo
Newsletter I-9
2007-11-28
Addition of administrative divisions and their codes
Codes: (not marked with red colour in newsletter) Gauteng : ZA-GT → ZA-GP KwaZulu-Natal : ZA-NL → ZA-ZN
ISO 3166-2:2007
2007-12-13
Second edition of ISO 3166-2(not announced in a newsletter)
Codes: Gauteng : ZA-GP → ZA-GT KwaZulu-Natal : ZA-ZN → ZA-NL
The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:
Effective date of change
Description of change
Code/Subdivision change
2020-03-02
Change of subdivision code from ZA-GT to ZA-GP, ZA-NL to ZA-KZN; Update Code Source
Codes: ZA-GT → ZA-GP ZA-NL → ZA-KZN
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