ISO 3166-2:BD is the entry for Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

 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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 (ISO), which defines 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

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 coded in ISO 3166-1

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.

Currently for Bangladesh, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:

• 6 divisions
  Divisions of Bangladesh
  ||Bangladesh is divided into seven major administrative regions called divisions . Each division is named after the major city within its jurisdiction that serves as the administrative capital of that division:...
  
  
• 64 districts
  Districts of Bangladesh
  The divisions of Bangladesh are divided into 64 districts, or zila . The districts are further subdivided into 493 sub-districts, or upazila ....
  
  

Rangpur Division, created in 2010, is not listed.

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

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

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 code of Bangladesh. The second part is either of the following:

• one digit (1–6): divisions
• two digits (01–64): districts

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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Divisions

Code	Subdivision name
BD-1	Barisal bibhag
BD-2	Chittagong bibhag
BD-3	Dhaka bibhag
BD-4	Khulna bibhag
BD-5	Rajshahi bibhag
BD-6	Sylhet bibhag

Districts

Code	Subdivision name	In division
BD-05	Bagerhat zila	4
BD-01	Bandarban zila	2
BD-02	Barguna zila	1
BD-06	Barisal zila	1
BD-07	Bhola zila	1
BD-03	Bogra zila	5
BD-04	Brahmanbaria zila	2
BD-09	Chandpur zila	2
BD-10	Chittagong zila	2
BD-12	Chuadanga zila	4
BD-08	Comilla zila	2
BD-11	Cox's Bazar zila	2
BD-13	Dhaka zila	3
BD-14	Dinajpur zila	5 These districts are now in the newly-created Rangpur Division.
BD-15	Faridpur zila	3
BD-16	Feni zila	2
BD-19	Gaibandha zila	5
BD-18	Gazipur zila	3
BD-17	Gopalganj zila	3
BD-20	Habiganj zila	6
BD-24	Jaipurhat zila	5
BD-21	Jamalpur zila	3
BD-22	Jessore zila	4
BD-25	Jhalakati zila	1
BD-23	Jhenaidah zila	4
BD-29	Khagrachari zila	2
BD-27	Khulna zila	4
BD-26	Kishoreganj zila	3
BD-28	Kurigram zila	5
BD-30	Kushtia zila	4
BD-31	Lakshmipur zila	2
BD-32	Lalmonirhat zila	5
BD-36	Madaripur zila	3
BD-37	Magura zila	4
BD-33	Manikganj zila	3
BD-39	Meherpur zila	4
BD-38	Moulvibazar zila	6
BD-35	Munshiganj zila	3
BD-34	Mymensingh zila	3
BD-48	Naogaon zila	5
BD-43	Narail zila	4
BD-40	Narayanganj zila	3
BD-42	Narsingdi zila	3
BD-44	Natore zila	5
BD-45	Nawabganj zila	5
BD-41	Netrakona zila	3
BD-46	Nilphamari zila	5
BD-47	Noakhali zila	2
BD-49	Pabna zila	5
BD-52	Panchagarh zila	5
BD-51	Patuakhali zila	1
BD-50	Pirojpur zila	1
BD-53	Rajbari zila	3
BD-54	Rajshahi zila	5
BD-56	Rangamati zila	2
BD-55	Rangpur zila	5
BD-58	Satkhira zila	4
BD-62	Shariatpur zila	3
BD-57	Sherpur zila	3
BD-59	Sirajganj zila	5
BD-61	Sunamganj zila	6
BD-60	Sylhet zila	6
BD-63	Tangail zila	3
BD-64	Thakurgaon zila	5

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:

Newsletter	Date issued	Description of change in newsletter	Code/Subdivision change
		New list source. One division added. 31 regions cancelled. Allocation of districts to divisions instead of regions. Correction of one spelling error	Subdivisions added: BD-6 Sylhet bibhag Subdivisions deleted: 21 regions (see below)

Codes deleted in Newsletter I-2

Code	Subdivision name	In division	Districts in region
BD-2A	Bandarban anchal	2	01
BD-1B	Barisal anchal	1	06, 07, 25, 50
BD-5C	Bogra anchal	5	03, 24
BD-2D	Chittagong anchal	2	10, 11
BD-2E	Chittagong Hill Tracts Chittagong Hill Tracts The Chittagong Hill Tracts comprise an area of 13,295 km2 in south-eastern Bangladesh, and borders India and Myanmar . It was a single district of Bangladesh until 1984. In that year it was divided into three separate districts: Khagrachari, Rangamati and Bandarban. Topographically, this is the...	2	29, 56
BD-2F	Comilla anchal	2	04, 09, 08
BD-3G	Dhaka anchal	3	13, 18, 33, 35, 40, 42
BD-5H	Dinajpur anchal	5	14, 52, 64
BD-3I	Faridpur anchal	3	15, 17, 36, 53, 62
BD-3J	Jamalpur anchal	3	21, 57
BD-4K	Jessore anchal	4	22, 23, 37, 43
BD-4L	Khulna anchal	4	05, 27, 58
BD-4M	Khustia anchal	4	12, 30, 39
BD-3N	Mymensingh anchal	3	26, 34, 41
BD-2O	Noakhali anchal	2	16, 31, 47
BD-5P	Pabna anchal	5	49, 59
BD-1Q	Patuakhali anchal	1	02, 51
BD-5R	Rajshahi anchal	5	48, 44, 45, 54
BD-5S	Rangpur anchal	5	19, 28, 32, 46, 55
BD-2T	Sylhet anchal	2	20, 38, 61, 60
BD-3U	Tangail anchal	3	63

See also

• Subdivisions of Bangladesh
• FIPS region codes of Bangladesh

External links

• Divisions of Bangladesh, Statoids.com
• Districts of Bangladesh, Statoids.com

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