PA

Short description: Entry for Panama in ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2:PA is the entry for Panama 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 Panama, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 10 provinces and 4 indigenous regions.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is PA, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Panama. The second part is either of the following:

one or two digits (1–10): provinces
two letters: indigenous regions

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
PA-1	Bocas del Toro	Mouths of the Bull	province
PA-4	Chiriquí	Chiriquí	province
PA-2	Coclé	Coclé	province
PA-3	Colón	Colón	province
PA-5	Darién	Darién	province
PA-EM	Emberá	Emberá	indigenous region
PA-KY	Guna Yala (local variant is Kuna Yala)	Guna Yala	indigenous region
PA-6	Herrera	Herrera	province
PA-7	Los Santos	The Saints	province
PA-NT	Naso Tjër Di	Grandmother's River	indigenous region
PA-NB	Ngäbe-Buglé	Ngäbe-Buglé	indigenous region
PA-8	Panamá	Panama	province
PA-10	Panamá Oeste	West Panama	province
PA-9	Veraguas	Veraguas	province

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

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. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.

Newsletter	Date issued	Description of change in newsletter	Code/Subdivision change
Newsletter II-2	2010-06-30	Update of the administrative structure and of the list source	Subdivisions added: PA-EM Emberá PA-NB Ngöbe-Buglé Codes: PA-0 Comarca de San Blas → PA-KY Kuna Yala

The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:

Effective date of change	Short description of change (en)
2010-06-30	Update of the administrative structure and of the list source
2014-11-03	Add 1 province PA-10; update List Source
2017-11-23	Change of subdivision name of PA-KY; addition of local variation of PA-KY, update List Source
2021-11-25	Addition of indigenous region PA-NT; Update List Source
2022-11-29	Change of spelling of subdivision name of PA-NB; Update List Source