ISO 3166-2:BO
entry for Bolivia in ISO 3166-2
ISO 3166-2:BO is the entry for the Plurinational State of Bolivia 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 Bolivia, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for nine departments.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is BO, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. The second part is a letter, currently used in vehicle registration plates.
Current codes
Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).
Subdivision names are sorted in traditional Spanish alphabetical order: a–c, ch, d–l, ll, m–n, ñ, o–z.
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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.
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