ISO 3166-2:ME is the entry for Montenegro

Montenegro

Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...

 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

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 standard

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 published by the International Organization for Standardization

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 (ISO), which defines code

Code

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

Province

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s or states) of all countries

Country

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 coded in ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166-1

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.

Currently for Montenegro, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 21 municipalities.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is ME, 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 Montenegro. The second part is two digits (01–21).

Before the dissoultion of Serbia and Montenegro

Serbia and Montenegro

Serbia and Montenegro was a country in southeastern Europe, formed from two former republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia : Serbia and Montenegro. Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, it was established in 1992 as a federation called the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...

 in 2006, Montenegro was assigned the ISO 3166-2 code CS-CG under the entry for Serbia and Montenegro.

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
ME-01	Andrijevica
ME-02	Bar
ME-03	Berane
ME-04	Bijelo Polje
ME-05	Budva
ME-06	Cetinje
ME-07	Danilovgrad
ME-08	Herceg-Novi
ME-09	Kolašin
ME-10	Kotor
ME-11	Mojkovac
ME-12	Nikšić
ME-13	Plav
ME-14	Pljevlja
ME-15	Plužine
ME-16	Podgorica
ME-17	Rožaje
ME-18
ME-19	Tivat
ME-20	Ulcinj
ME-21	Žabljak

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:

Newsletter	Date issued	Description of change in newsletter	Code/Subdivision change
		Addition of a new country (in accordance with ISO 3166-1 Newsletter V-12)	Subdivisions added: 21 municipalities

External links

• Communes of Montenegro, Statoids.com