NI

Short description: Entry for Nicaragua in ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2:NI is the entry for Nicaragua 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 Nicaragua, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 15 departments and 2 autonomous regions.

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

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 (es)	Subdivision name (en) ^{[note 1]}	Subdivision category
NI-BO	Boaco	Boaco	department
NI-CA	Carazo	Carazo	department
NI-CI	Chinandega	Chinandega	department
NI-CO	Chontales	Chontales	department
NI-AN	Costa Caribe Norte	North Caribbean Coast	autonomous region
NI-AS	Costa Caribe Sur	South Caribbean Coast	autonomous region
NI-ES	Estelí	Estelí	department
NI-GR	Granada	Granada	department
NI-JI	Jinotega	Jinotega	department
NI-LE	León	León	department
NI-MD	Madriz	Madriz	department
NI-MN	Managua	Managua	department
NI-MS	Masaya	Masaya	department
NI-MT	Matagalpa	Matagalpa	department
NI-NS	Nueva Segovia	New Segovia	department
NI-SJ	Río San Juan	Saint John River	department
NI-RI	Rivas	Rivas	department

Notes

↑ For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.

Changes

The following changes to the entry have been announced by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.

Source	Date issued	Description of change in newsletter	Code/Subdivision change
Newsletter I-2	2002-05-21	Deletion of one department. Addition of two autonomous regions. New list source	Subdivisions added: NI-AN Atlántico Norte NI-AS Atlántico Sur Subdivisions deleted: NI-ZE Zelaya
Online Browsing Platform (OBP)	2018-04-20	Change of subdivision name of NI-AN, NI-AS; update List Source	Name change: NI-AN Atlántico Norte → Costa Caribe Norte NI-AS Atlántico Sur → Costa Caribe Sur