ISO 3166-2:GB is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to United Kingdom.

The codes correspond to the nation's administrative divisions:

• England
  • 34 counties
  • 32 London Boroughs
  • 36 metropolitan districts
  • 47 unitary authorities including Isle of Wight & Isles of Scilly
  • 1 special area
• Northern Ireland
  • 26 district council areas
• Scotland
  • 32 council areas
• Wales
  • 22 unitary authorities

The Channel Islands are not part of the UK, but ISO offers codes for them under "GB-".

The first part of each code is the ISO 3166-1 code GB for the United Kingdom, and the second part is a three-letter code, which is the same as in the British Standard BS 6879.

Newsletters

• ISO 3166-2:2002-05-21

Codes

BS-only Codes

None of these codes is part of ISO 3166-2.

• GB-UKM United Kingdom
  • GB-GBN Great Britain
    • GB-EAW England and Wales
      • GB-ENG England
      • GB-WLS Wales
    • GB-SCT Scotland
  • GB-NIR Northern Ireland
• GB-IOM Isle of Man
• GB-CHA Channel Islands

BS also has Welsh language code for Welsh names of Wales and its subdivisions, where they differ from the English language names. These are not listed here.

Source: "Gazetteer for the Reorganised Statistical Regions and Local Authorities in the United Kingdom", Office for National Statistics, June 1997.

See also

• Subdivisions of the United Kingdom
• ISO 3166-2, the reference table for all country region codes.
• ISO 3166-1, the reference table for all country codes, as used for domain names on the internet.
• NUTS:UK, the Eurostat classification.
• UK topics