ISO 3166-2:DO is the entry for the Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

 in ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1...

, part of the ISO 3166

ISO 3166

ISO 3166 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization . It defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, special areas of geographical interest, and their principal subdivisions . The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation...

 standard

Standardization

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 published by the International Organization for Standardization

International Organization for Standardization

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 (ISO), which defines code

Code

A code is a rule for converting a piece of information into another form or representation , not necessarily of the same type....

s for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., province

Province

A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.-Etymology:The English word "province" is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century Old French "province," which itself comes from the Latin word "provincia," which referred to...

s or states) of all countries

Country

A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...

 coded in ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166-1 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation of names...

.

Currently for the Dominican Republic, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 1 district and 31 provinces

Provinces of the Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is divided into thirty–one provincias , while the national capital, Santo Domingo, is contained within its own Distrito Nacional ....

. The Distrito Nacional

Distrito Nacional

The Distrito Nacional is a subdivision of the Dominican Republic enclosing the capital Santo Domingo. It is not within any of the provinces, but is itself counted as a province. Before October 16, 2001, the Distrito Nacional was much larger, including what is now known as Santo Domingo Province....

 contains the capital of the country Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo, known officially as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic. Its metropolitan population was 2,084,852 in 2003, and estimated at 3,294,385 in 2010. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River...

 and has special status equal to the provinces.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is DO, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest...

 code of the Dominican Republic. The second part is two digits:

• 01: district
• 02–27: provinces as of late 1970s
• 28–30: provinces created in the 1980s and 1990s
• 31–32: provinces created in 2001 and 2002

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	Subdivision category
DO-01	Distrito Nacional Distrito Nacional The Distrito Nacional is a subdivision of the Dominican Republic enclosing the capital Santo Domingo. It is not within any of the provinces, but is itself counted as a province. Before October 16, 2001, the Distrito Nacional was much larger, including what is now known as Santo Domingo Province....  (Santo Domingo)	district
DO-02	Azua Azua Province Azua is a province of the Dominican Republic.-Municipalities and municipal districts:The province as of June 20 2006 is divided into the following municipalities and municipal districts within them:...	province
DO-03	Bahoruco	province
DO-04	Barahona	province
DO-05	Dajabón	province
DO-06	Duarte	province
DO-08	El Seybo [El Seibo]	province
DO-09	Espaillat	province
DO-30	Hato Mayor	province
DO-10	Independencia	province
DO-11	La Altagracia	province
DO-07	La Estrelleta [Elías Piña]	province
DO-12	La Romana	province
DO-13	La Vega	province
DO-14	María Trinidad Sánchez	province
DO-28	Monseñor Nouel	province
DO-15	Monte Cristi	province
DO-29	Monte Plata Monte Plata Province Monte Plata is a province of the Dominican Republic, and also the name of its capital city. It was split from San Cristóbal in 1992.-Municipalities and municipal districts:...	province
DO-16	Pedernales	province
DO-17	Peravia	province
DO-18	Puerto Plata	province
DO-19	Salcedo The name of Salcedo has been changed to Hermanas Mirabal.	province
DO-20	Samaná	province
DO-21	San Cristóbal	province
DO-31	San José de Ocoa	province
DO-22	San Juan San Juan Province (Dominican Republic) San Juan is a province of the Dominican Republic. Before 1961 it was known as Benefactor.-Municipalities and municipal districts:The province as of June 20 2006 is divided into the following municipalities and municipal districts within them:*Bohechío**Arroyo Cano **Yaque *El Cercado**Batista...	province
DO-23	San Pedro de Macorís	province
DO-24		province
DO-25	Santiago	province
DO-26	Santiago Rodríguez	province
DO-32	Santo Domingo	province
DO-27	Valverde	province

Notes

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:

Edition/Newsletter	Date issued	Description of change in newsletter	Code/Subdivision change
		Introduction of new subdivision code elements taken from the Dominican Statistics Code. Correction of alphabetic sorting of subdivision names. Addition of 1 alternative name form	Codes: format changed (see below)
		Second edition of ISO 3166-2 (this change was not announced in a newsletter)	Subdivisions added: DO-31 San José de Ocoa DO-32 Santo Domingo

Codes changed in Newsletter I-1

Note: Two provinces were assigned the code DO-EP.

Before	After	Subdivision name
DO-DN	DO-01	Distrito Nacional Distrito Nacional The Distrito Nacional is a subdivision of the Dominican Republic enclosing the capital Santo Domingo. It is not within any of the provinces, but is itself counted as a province. Before October 16, 2001, the Distrito Nacional was much larger, including what is now known as Santo Domingo Province....  (Santo Domingo)
DO-AZ	DO-02	Azua Azua Province Azua is a province of the Dominican Republic.-Municipalities and municipal districts:The province as of June 20 2006 is divided into the following municipalities and municipal districts within them:...
DO-BR	DO-03	Bahoruco
DO-BH	DO-04	Barahona
DO-DA	DO-05	Dajabón
DO-DU	DO-06	Duarte
DO-SE	DO-08	El Seybo El Seibo Province El Seibo , alternatively spelt El Seybo, is a province of the Dominican Republic. Before 1992 it included what is now Hato Mayor province.-Municipalities and municipal districts:...  [El Seibo]
DO-EP	DO-09	Espaillat
DO-HM	DO-30	Hato Mayor
DO-IN	DO-10	Independencia
DO-AL	DO-11	La Altagracia
DO-EP	DO-07	La Estrelleta [Elías Piña]
DO-RO	DO-12	La Romana
DO-VE	DO-13	La Vega
DO-MT	DO-14	María Trinidad Sánchez
DO-MN	DO-28	Monseñor Nouel
DO-MC	DO-15	Monte Cristi
DO-MP	DO-29	Monte Plata Monte Plata Province Monte Plata is a province of the Dominican Republic, and also the name of its capital city. It was split from San Cristóbal in 1992.-Municipalities and municipal districts:...
DO-PN	DO-16	Pedernales
DO-PR	DO-17	Peravia
DO-PP	DO-18	Puerto Plata
DO-SC	DO-19	Salcedo
DO-SM	DO-20	Samaná
DO-CR	DO-21	San Cristóbal
DO-JU	DO-22	San Juan San Juan Province (Dominican Republic) San Juan is a province of the Dominican Republic. Before 1961 it was known as Benefactor.-Municipalities and municipal districts:The province as of June 20 2006 is divided into the following municipalities and municipal districts within them:*Bohechío**Arroyo Cano **Yaque *El Cercado**Batista...
DO-PM	DO-23	San Pedro de Macorís
DO-SZ	DO-24
DO-ST	DO-25	Santiago
DO-SR	DO-26	Santiago Rodríguez
DO-VA	DO-27	Valverde

See also

• Subdivisions of the Dominican Republic
• FIPS region codes of the Dominican Republic

External links

• Provinces of the Dominican Republic, Statoids.com

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