ISO 3166-2:LC is the entry for Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia is an island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 620 km2 and has an...

 in ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2

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, part of the ISO 3166

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s for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., 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 Saint Lucia, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 11 quarters

Quarters of Saint Lucia

||The island of Saint Lucia is divided into 11 quarters:# Anse la Raye# Castries# Choiseul# Dauphin# Dennery# Gros Islet# Laborie# Micoud# Praslin# Soufrière# Vieux Fort-District statistics:...

. Some sources claim that the country is divided into ten quarters (which include Canaries but not Dauphin

Dauphin Quarter

Dauphin is a Quarter on the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia. It contains a village of the same name, located at . It was home to Amerindians, the , who settled there. To this day, there are ruins which serve as a reminder of people who lived there long before Christopher Columbus crossed the...

 and Praslin

Praslin Quarter

Praslin is a Quarter of Saint Lucia, a small island nation in the eastern Caribbean Sea. Praslin Quarter's administrative centre is the village of Praslin, which is located at .-Adjacent quarters:...

) plus the Central Forest Reserve Area.

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

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

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 code of Saint Lucia. The second part is two digits (01–11).

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
LC-01	Anse la Raye
LC-02	Castries Castries Quarter Castries Quarter is one of eleven Quarters on the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia. According to the 2002 census, the population of the Quarter was 64,957, having shown a slow but steady increase over the past ten years. The capital of Saint Lucia, the city of Castries, is located in this...
LC-03	Choiseul Choiseul Quarter Choiseul is a Quarter of the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia. Located on the southwestern side of the island, the quarter is home to 6,174 people, according to the 2002 census...
LC-04	Dauphin Dauphin Quarter Dauphin is a Quarter on the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia. It contains a village of the same name, located at . It was home to Amerindians, the , who settled there. To this day, there are ruins which serve as a reminder of people who lived there long before Christopher Columbus crossed the...
LC-05	Dennery
LC-06	Gros Islet Gros Islet Quarter Gros Islet is the newest town in Saint Lucia, having been recently promoted from a village to a town. It is the location of the Beausejour Cricket Grounds where both One Day International and Test Cricket is played. Parts of the 2007 Cricket World Cup and 2010 ICC World Twenty20 where played there...
LC-07	Laborie Laborie Quarter Laborie is a Quarter – an administrative division inherited from the former French colonial regime – on the Caribbean island-nation of Saint Lucia.According to the 2002 census, the population of the Quarter was 7,414 people...
LC-08	Micoud Micoud Quarter Micoud is a Quarter on the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia, and also a village inside that Quarter. According to the 2002 census, the population of the Quarter was 16,143 people. The village of Micoud is located at .-Adjacent quarters:...
LC-09	Praslin Praslin Quarter Praslin is a Quarter of Saint Lucia, a small island nation in the eastern Caribbean Sea. Praslin Quarter's administrative centre is the village of Praslin, which is located at .-Adjacent quarters:...
LC-10	Soufrière
LC-11	Vieux Fort Vieux Fort Quarter Vieux Fort is located in the southern part of St. Lucia. It is the second-largest town on the island and is the home of St Lucia's international airport, Hewanorra International Airport....

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
		Second edition of ISO 3166-2 (this change was not announced in a newsletter)	Subdivisions added: 11 quarters

See also

• Subdivisions of Saint Lucia
• FIPS region codes of Saint Lucia

External links

• Districts of Saint Lucia, Statoids.com