ISO 3166-2:VN is the entry for Vietnam in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
Currently for Vietnam, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 58 provinces and five municipalities. The municipalities have special status equal to the provinces. However, those definition and assignment have become obsoleted in practice and are subjects to be updated, following the Plan to arrange and merge administrative units in Vietnam 2024–2025.
Each code consists of two parts separated by a hyphen. The first part is , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Vietnam. The second part either of the following: two digits: provinces two letters: municipalities The current Vietnamese entry is inherited from the entry representing the former Republic of Viet-Nam, while Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam used a different profile (VD/VDR), which has been retired and achieved under ISO 3166-3 as "VDVN".
Current codes Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).
Click on the button in the header to sort each column. Names are sorted according to the Vietnamese alphabet: a, ă, â, b-d, đ, e, ê, f-o, ô, ơ, p-u, ư, v-z (with alphabetization proceeding on a word-by-word basis, e.g. all names starting with Hà sort before all names with Hải).
Code Subdivision name (vi) Subdivision category province province province province province province province province province province province province Cần Thơ municipality province Đà Nẵng municipality province province province province province province province province Hà Nội municipality province province Hải Phòng municipality province Hồ Chí Minh(local variant is ) municipality province province province province province province province province province province province province province province province province province province province province province province province province province province province province province province province province province province
Changes The following changes to the entry have been announced by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO in 1998. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.
Newsletter Date issued Description of change in newsletter Code/Subdivision change Duplicate assignment of VN-24 corrected. Correction of 1 subdivision name. Correction of alphabetic sorting of subdivision names Codes: (to correct duplicate use) Quảng Ninh: → Spelling correction in VN-65 Addition of 3 provinces. Update of list source Subdivisions added: Đắk Nông Điện Biên Hậu Giang (corrected ) Administrative adjustment update, typo corrections and source list update. Subdivision layout: 5 provinces → 5 municipalities Online BrowsingPlatform (OBP) 2013-02-06 Correct spelling error in French long name 2014-11-03 Delete subdivision VN-15; change spelling for all the provinces except for VN-28, VN-30, VN-41 and VN-44; update List Source Subdivision deleted: Ha Tay(Merged into in 2008) 2020-11-24 Change of spelling of VN-CT, VN-DN, VN-HN, VN-HP, VN-SG; Update List Source Subdivision renamed: Can Tho → Cần Thơ Da Nang → Đà Nẵng Ha Noi → Hà Nội Hai Phong → Hải Phòng Ho Chi Minh → Hồ Chí Minh
See also Subdivisions of Vietnam FIPS region codes of Vietnam Neighbouring countries: CN, KH, LA
External links ISO Online Browsing Platform: VN Provinces of Vietnam, Statoids.com