ISO 3166-2:NG

ISO 3166-2:NGis the entry forNigeriainISO 3166-2,part of theISO 3166 standardpublished by theInternational Organization for Standardization(ISO), which definescodesfor the names of the principalsubdivisions(e.g.,provincesorstates) of allcountriescoded inISO 3166-1.

Currently for Nigeria, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for1 capital territory and 36 states.TheFederal Capital Territorycontains the capital of the countryAbujaand has special status equal to the states.^{[citation needed]}

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part isNG,theISO 3166-1 alpha-2code of Nigeria. The second part is two letters.

Current codes[edit]

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 (en)	Subdivision category
NG-AB	Abia	state
NG-FC	Abuja Federal Capital Territory	capital territory
NG-AD	Adamawa	state
NG-AK	Akwa Ibom	state
NG-AN	Anambra	state
NG-BA	Bauchi	state
NG-BY	Bayelsa	state
NG-BE	Benue	state
NG-BO	Borno	state
NG-CR	Cross River	state
NG-DE	Delta	state
NG-EB	Ebonyi	state
NG-ED	Edo	state
NG-EK	Ekiti	state
NG-EN	Enugu	state
NG-GO	Gombe	state
NG-IM	Imo	state
NG-JI	Jigawa	state
NG-KD	Kaduna	state
NG-KN	Kano	state
NG-KT	Katsina	state
NG-KE	Kebbi	state
NG-KO	Kogi	state
NG-KW	Kwara	state
NG-LA	Lagos	state
NG-NA	Nasarawa	state
NG-NI	Niger	state
NG-OG	Ogun	state
NG-ON	Ondo	state
NG-OS	Osun	state
NG-OY	Oyo	state
NG-PL	Plateau	state
NG-RI	Rivers	state
NG-SO	Sokoto	state
NG-TA	Taraba	state
NG-YO	Yobe	state
NG-ZA	Zamfara	state

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
Newsletter I-1	2000-06-21	Addition of 6 new states	Subdivisions added: NG-BYBayelsa NG-EBEbonyi NG-EKEkiti NG-GOGombe NG-NANassarawa NG-ZAZamfara
Newsletter II-2	2010-06-30	Consistency between ISO 3166-1 and ISO 3166-2, addition of names in administrative languages