ISO 3166-2:FR

ISO 3166-2:FR is the entry for France 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 France, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for the following subdivisions:

• Metropolitan France (3 levels):
  • 12 metropolitan regions
  • 3 metropolitan collectivities with special status
  • 95 metropolitan departments
  • 1 European collectivity
• Overseas France:
  • 1 dependency
  • 5 overseas collectivities
  • 1 overseas collectivity with special status
  • 3 overseas departmental collectivities
  • 1 overseas territory
  • 2 overseas unique territorial collectivities

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

• one digit followed by two letters: European collectivity
• two digits: metropolitan departments
• two digits followed by a letter: metropolitan collectivities with special status
• two letters: overseas collectivities, overseas collectivity with special status, overseas territory (matching their ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes)
• three letters: metropolitan regions
• three digits: overseas departmental collectivities, overseas unique territorial collectivities

The metropolitan departments use their INSEE codes, which are currently used in postal codes, and used in vehicle registration plates until 2009. INSEE codes are assigned as follows:

• 01–89 except 20: departments created before the 20th century, assigned in alphabetical order (prefixes in the form of "Bas-" and "Haute-" are ignored at the primary sort level), except Paris and Yvelines, which replaced the former departments Seine and Seine-et-Oise respectively after the reorganization of the Paris region in 1968;
• 90: Territoire de Belfort, which was given department status in 1922;
• 91–95: departments created after the reorganization of the Paris region in 1968;
• 2A and 2B: Corse-du-Sud and Haute-Corse, which were created after the division of Corsica in 1975, whose INSEE code was 20.

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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First-level metropolitan subdivisions

Code	Subdivision name (fr)	Subdivision category
FR-ARA	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	metropolitan region
FR-BFC	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté	metropolitan region
FR-BRE	Bretagne	metropolitan region
FR-CVL	Centre-Val de Loire	metropolitan region
FR-20R	Corse	metropolitan collectivity with special status
FR-GES	Grand-Est	metropolitan region
FR-HDF	Hauts-de-France	metropolitan region
FR-IDF	Île-de-France	metropolitan region
FR-NOR	Normandie	metropolitan region
FR-NAQ	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	metropolitan region
FR-OCC	Occitanie	metropolitan region
FR-PDL	Pays-de-la-Loire	metropolitan region
FR-PAC	Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur	metropolitan region

Second-level subdivisions

Code	Subdivision name	Subdivision category	In subdivision	In region (before 2016)
FR-01	Ain	metropolitan department	ARA	V
FR-02	Aisne	metropolitan department	HDF	S
FR-03	Allier	metropolitan department	ARA	C
FR-04	Alpes-de-Haute-Provence	metropolitan department	PAC	U
FR-06	Alpes-Maritimes	metropolitan department	PAC	U
FR-6AE	Alsace	European collectivity	GES	A
FR-07	Ardèche	metropolitan department	ARA	V
FR-08	Ardennes	metropolitan department	GES	G
FR-09	Ariège	metropolitan department	OCC	N
FR-10	Aube	metropolitan department	GES	G
FR-11	Aude	metropolitan department	OCC	K
FR-12	Aveyron	metropolitan department	OCC	N
FR-13	Bouches-du-Rhône	metropolitan department	PAC	U
FR-14	Calvados	metropolitan department	NOR	P
FR-15	Cantal	metropolitan department	ARA	C
FR-16	Charente	metropolitan department	NAQ	T
FR-17	Charente-Maritime	metropolitan department	NAQ	T
FR-18	Cher	metropolitan department	CVL	F
FR-19	Corrèze	metropolitan department	NAQ	L
FR-2A	Corse-du-Sud	metropolitan department	20R	H
FR-21	Côte-d'Or	metropolitan department	BFC	D
FR-22	Côtes-d'Armor	metropolitan department	BRE	E
FR-23	Creuse	metropolitan department	NAQ	L
FR-79	Deux-Sèvres	metropolitan department	NAQ	T
FR-24	Dordogne	metropolitan department	NAQ	B
FR-25	Doubs	metropolitan department	BFC	I
FR-26	Drôme	metropolitan department	ARA	V
FR-91	Essonne	metropolitan department	IDF	J
FR-27	Eure	metropolitan department	NOR	Q
FR-28	Eure-et-Loir	metropolitan department	CVL	F
FR-29	Finistère	metropolitan department	BRE	E
FR-30	Gard	metropolitan department	OCC	K
FR-32	Gers	metropolitan department	OCC	N
FR-33	Gironde	metropolitan department	NAQ	B
FR-971	Guadeloupe	overseas departmental collectivity	-	-
FR-973	Guyane (française)	overseas unique territorial collectivity	-	-
FR-2B	Haute-Corse	metropolitan department	20R	H
FR-31	Haute-Garonne	metropolitan department	OCC	N
FR-43	Haute-Loire	metropolitan department	ARA	C
FR-52	Haute-Marne	metropolitan department	GES	G
FR-70	Haute-Saône	metropolitan department	BFC	I
FR-74	Haute-Savoie	metropolitan department	ARA	V
FR-87	Haute-Vienne	metropolitan department	NAQ	L
FR-05	Hautes-Alpes	metropolitan department	PAC	U
FR-65	Hautes-Pyrénées	metropolitan department	OCC	N
FR-92	Hauts-de-Seine	metropolitan department	IDF	J
FR-34	Hérault	metropolitan department	OCC	K
FR-35	Ille-et-Vilaine	metropolitan department	BRE	E
FR-36	Indre	metropolitan department	CVL	F
FR-37	Indre-et-Loire	metropolitan department	CVL	F
FR-38	Isère	metropolitan department	ARA	V
FR-39	Jura	metropolitan department	BFC	I
FR-974	La Réunion	overseas departmental collectivity	-	-
FR-40	Landes	metropolitan department	NAQ	B
FR-41	Loir-et-Cher	metropolitan department	CVL	F
FR-42	Loire	metropolitan department	ARA	V
FR-44	Loire-Atlantique	metropolitan department	PDL	R
FR-45	Loiret	metropolitan department	CVL	F
FR-46	Lot	metropolitan department	OCC	N
FR-47	Lot-et-Garonne	metropolitan department	NAQ	B
FR-48	Lozère	metropolitan department	OCC	K
FR-49	Maine-et-Loire	metropolitan department	PDL	R
FR-50	Manche	metropolitan department	NOR	P
FR-51	Marne	metropolitan department	GES	G
FR-972	Martinique	overseas unique territorial collectivity	-	-
FR-53	Mayenne	metropolitan department	PDL	R
FR-976	Mayotte	overseas departmental collectivity	-	-
FR-69M	Métropole de Lyon	metropolitan collectivity with special status	ARA	-
FR-54	Meurthe-et-Moselle	metropolitan department	GES	M
FR-55	Meuse	metropolitan department	GES	M
FR-56	Morbihan	metropolitan department	BRE	E
FR-57	Moselle	metropolitan department	GES	M
FR-58	Nièvre	metropolitan department	BFC	D
FR-59	Nord	metropolitan department	HDF	O
FR-60	Oise	metropolitan department	HDF	S
FR-61	Orne	metropolitan department	NOR	P
FR-75C	Paris	metropolitan collectivity with special status	IDF	J
FR-62	Pas-de-Calais	metropolitan department	HDF	O
FR-63	Puy-de-Dôme	metropolitan department	ARA	C
FR-64	Pyrénées-Atlantiques	metropolitan department	NAQ	B
FR-66	Pyrénées-Orientales	metropolitan department	OCC	K
FR-69	Rhône^[1]	metropolitan department	ARA	V
FR-71	Saône-et-Loire	metropolitan department	BFC	D
FR-72	Sarthe	metropolitan department	PDL	R
FR-73	Savoie	metropolitan department	ARA	V
FR-77	Seine-et-Marne	metropolitan department	IDF	J
FR-76	Seine-Maritime	metropolitan department	NOR	Q
FR-93	Seine-Saint-Denis	metropolitan department	IDF	J
FR-80	Somme	metropolitan department	HDF	S
FR-81	Tarn	metropolitan department	OCC	N
FR-82	Tarn-et-Garonne	metropolitan department	OCC	N
FR-90	Territoire de Belfort	metropolitan department	BFC	I
FR-95	Val-d'Oise	metropolitan department	IDF	J
FR-94	Val-de-Marne	metropolitan department	IDF	J
FR-83	Var	metropolitan department	PAC	U
FR-84	Vaucluse	metropolitan department	PAC	U
FR-85	Vendée	metropolitan department	PDL	R
FR-86	Vienne	metropolitan department	NAQ	T
FR-88	Vosges	metropolitan department	GES	M
FR-89	Yonne	metropolitan department	BFC	D
FR-78	Yvelines	metropolitan department	IDF	J

Third-level subdivisions

Code	Subdivision name	Subdivision category	In subdivision	In region (before 2016)
FR-67	Bas-Rhin	metropolitan department	6AE	A
FR-68	Haut-Rhin	metropolitan department	6AE	A

Dependency, overseas territory, and overseas collectivities

Code	Subdivision name	Subdivision category
FR-CP	Clipperton	dependency
FR-NC	Nouvelle-Calédonie	overseas collectivity with special status
FR-PF	Polynésie française	overseas collectivity
FR-BL	Saint-Barthélemy	overseas collectivity
FR-MF	Saint-Martin	overseas collectivity
FR-PM	Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon	overseas collectivity
FR-TF	Terres australes françaises	overseas territory^[2]
FR-WF	Wallis-et-Futuna	overseas collectivity

Subdivisions included in ISO 3166-1

Besides being included as subdivisions of France in ISO 3166-2, several subdivisions are also officially assigned their own country codes in ISO 3166-1.

Code	Subdivision name (fr)	Alpha-2 code	ISO 3166-1 English name	ISO 3166-1 French name	ISO 3166-2 code
FR-BL	Saint-Barthélemy	BL	Saint Barthélemy	Saint-Barthélemy	ISO 3166-2:BL
FR-973	Guyane (française)	GF	French Guiana	Guyane française	ISO 3166-2:GF
FR-971	Guadeloupe	GP	Guadeloupe	Guadeloupe	ISO 3166-2:GP
FR-MF	Saint-Martin	MF	Saint Martin (French part)	Saint-Martin (partie française)	ISO 3166-2:MF
FR-972	Martinique	MQ	Martinique	Martinique	ISO 3166-2:MQ
FR-NC	Nouvelle-Calédonie	NC	New Caledonia	Nouvelle-Calédonie	ISO 3166-2:NC
FR-PF	Polynésie française	PF	French Polynesia	Polynésie française	ISO 3166-2:PF
FR-PM	Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon	PM	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon	ISO 3166-2:PM
FR-974	La Réunion	RE	Réunion	Réunion	ISO 3166-2:RE
FR-TF	Terres australes françaises^[2]	TF	French Southern Territories	Terres australes françaises	ISO 3166-2:TF
FR-WF	Wallis-et-Futuna	WF	Wallis and Futuna	Wallis-et-Futuna	ISO 3166-2:WF
FR-976	Mayotte	YT	Mayotte	Mayotte	ISO 3166-2:YT

The dependency Clipperton Island (FR-CP) is also exceptionally reserved the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code CP on the request of the International Telecommunication Union.

Metropolitan France (the part of France located in Europe) was previously officially assigned its own set of country codes in ISO 3166-1, with alpha-2 code FX, before it was deleted from ISO 3166-1. The code is now exceptionally reserved on the request of France.

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	Code/Subdivision change
	2002-05-21	Correction of the Metropolitan region code in FR-79
Newsletter I-9	2007-11-28	Addition of administrative subdivisions and of their code elements	Subdivisions added: FR-CP Clipperton FR-BL Saint-Barthélemy FR-MF Saint-Martin
Newsletter II-1	2010-02-03 (corrected 2010-02-19)	Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, alphabetical re-ordering
Newsletter II-3	2011-12-13 (corrected 2011-12-15)	NL II-2 correction for ultramarine administrative organisation change and alphabetical re-ordering.	Category change: FR-YT Mayotte overseas territorial collectivity → overseas department
Online Browsing Platform (OBP)	2016-11-15	Change of the delimitation of the regions, reducing their number from 22 to 13 in metropolitan France, change of parent subdivision of metropolitan departments; addition of overseas regions FR-GUA, FR-LRE, FR-MAY; change of subdivision category from overseas department to overseas territorial collectivity for FR-GR, FR-MQ; update List Source.	Subdivisions added: FR-GUA Guadeloupe FR-LRE La Réunion FR-MAY Mayotte Category change: FR-GR overseas department → overseas territorial collectivity FR-MQ overseas department → overseas territorial collectivity
		Correction of the OBP entry error as follows: deletion of Clipperton Island, France, Metropolitan in the name field for Territory.
	2016-12-07	Correction of parent subdivision of FR-02, FR-60, FR-80 from FR-PDL to FR-HDF	Parent changes: FR-02 FR-PDL → FR-HDF FR-60 FR-PDL → FR-HDF FR-80 FR-PDL → FR-HDF
	2018-11-26	Addition of category name "collectivity" in eng/fra; Change of category name from metropolitan region to collectivity for FR-COR; Update List Source	Category change: FR-COR metropolitan region → collectivity
	2020-11-24	Change of category name from collectivity to metropolitan collectivity with special status for FR-COR; Change of category name from overseas department to overseas region for FR-GP, FR-RE, FR-YT; Deletion of parent subdivision of FR-GP, FR-RE, FR-YT; Change of category name from overseas region to overseas department for FR-GUA, FR-LRE, FR-MAY; Change of subdivision code from FR-COR to FR-20R, FR-GUA to FR-971, FR-LRE to FR-974, FR-MAY to FR-976; Assign parent subdivision to FR-971, FR-974, FR-976; Change of parent subdivision of FR-972, FR-973; Change of category name from overseas territorial collectivity to overseas collectivity for FR-BL, FR-MF, FR-PF, FR-PM, FR-WF; Addition of category overseas territory with specific status, overseas territory; Change of category name from overseas territorial collectivity to overseas collectivity with special status for FR-NC; Change of category name from overseas territorial collectivity to overseas territory for FR-TF; Update List Source and Code Source	Category changes: FR-COR collectivity → metropolitan collectivity with special status FR-GP overseas department → overseas region FR-RE overseas department → overseas region FR-YT overseas department → overseas region FR-GUA overseas region → overseas department FR-LRE overseas region → overseas department FR-MAY overseas region → overseas department FR-BL overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity FR-MF overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity FR-PF overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity FR-PM overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity FR-WF overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity FR-NC overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity with special status FR-TF overseas territorial collectivity → overseas territory Code changes: FR-COR → FR-20R FR-GUA → FR-971 FR-LRE → FR-974 FR-MAY → FR-976 Subdivisions added: FR-972 Martinique (parent FR-MQ) FR-973 Guyane (française) (parent FR-GF)
	2021-11-25	Addition of category European collectivity in eng & fra; Addition of European collectivity FR-6AE; Addition of metropolitan collectivity with special status FR-69M; Change of category name from metropolitan department to metropolitan collectivity with special status for FR-75; Change of subdivision code from FR-75 to FR-75C; Addition of category overseas departmental collectivity in English & French; Change of category name from overseas department to overseas departmental collectivity for FR-971, FR-974, FR-976; Addition of category overseas unique territorial collectivity in eng & fra; Change of category name from overseas department to overseas unique territorial collectivity for FR-972, FR-973; Deletion of category name overseas department; Deletion of overseas region FR-GF, FR-GP, FR-MQ, FR-RE, FR-YT; Deletion of category name overseas region; Change of parent subdivision of FR-67, FR-68; Deletion of parent subdivision of FR-971, FR-972, FR-973, FR-974, FR-976; Modification of Remark part 2; Update List Source and Code Source	Codes added: FR-6AE Alsace FR-69M Métropole de Lyon Codes changed: FR-75 Paris (metropolitan department) → FR-75C Paris (metropolitan collectivity with special status) Codes removed: FR-GF Guyane (française) FR-GP Guadeloupe FR-MQ Martinique FR-RE La Réunion FR-YT Mayotte Category changes: FR-971 overseas department → overseas departmental collectivity FR-972 overseas department → overseas unique territorial collectivity FR-973 overseas department → overseas unique territorial collectivity FR-974 overseas department → overseas departmental collectivity FR-976 overseas department → overseas departmental collectivity Parent changes: FR-67 FR-GES → FR-6AE FR-68 FR-GES → FR-6AE

Former metropolitan regions (before 31 December 2015)

Former code	Subdivision name (fr)	Subdivision name (en) ^[note 1]	Part of new region since 2016 (fr)
FR-A	Alsace	Alsace	Grand Est
FR-B	Aquitaine	Aquitaine	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
FR-C	Auvergne	Auvergne	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
FR-P	Basse-Normandie	Lower Normandy	Normandie
FR-D	Bourgogne	Burgundy	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
FR-E	Bretagne	Brittany	Bretagne
FR-F	Centre-Val de Loire^[note 2]	Centre-Val de Loire^[note 2]	Centre-Val de Loire
FR-G	Champagne-Ardenne	Champagne-Ardenne	Grand Est
FR-H	Corse	Corsica	Corse
FR-I	Franche-Comté	Franche-Comté	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
FR-Q	Haute-Normandie	Upper Normandy	Normandie
FR-J	Île-de-France	Île-de-France	Île-de-France
FR-K	Languedoc-Roussillon	Languedoc-Roussillon	Occitanie
FR-L	Limousin	Limousin	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
FR-M	Lorraine	Lorraine	Grand Est
FR-N	Midi-Pyrénées	Midi-Pyrénées	Occitanie
FR-O	Nord-Pas-de-Calais	Nord-Pas-de-Calais	Hauts-de-France
FR-R	Pays de la Loire	Pays de la Loire	Pays de la Loire
FR-S	Picardie	Picardy	Hauts-de-France
FR-T	Poitou-Charentes	Poitou-Charentes	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
FR-U	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
FR-V	Rhône-Alpes	Rhône-Alpes	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Notes

1. For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
2. On 1 January 2015, the former region Centre was officially renamed to Centre-Val de Loire.

See also

• Subdivisions of France
• FIPS region codes of France
• NUTS codes of France

Explanatory notes

1. The FR-69 code in ISO 316-2 still covers the department of Rhône as it was before 1 January 2015 when it was split in two parts, one of which is no longer a department but a métropole with specific status. Still, the Métropole de Lyon and the new department of Rhône are administratively managed by the French state as a single circonscription départementale (departmental constituency) that keeps the old department code.
   Where distinction is needed, INSEE uses 69 to cover the new circonscription départementale du Rhône for the state-controlled administration in its préfecture (covering the whole former département du Rhône before January 2015), and assigned new codes for the two separate local collectivities: 69D for the new (smaller) département du Rhône, and 69M for the new Métropole de Lyon.
2. The overseas territorial collectivy of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (Terres australes et antarctiques françaises in French) is also administratively covering (as one of its districts) the Adélie Land claimed by France in the Antarctic, but it is also part of the Antarctic and normally not covered by the ISO 3166-1 TF code or ISO 3166-2 FR-TF code, but by the ISO 3166-1 AQ code. The French Southern Lands (Terres australes françaises in French) are referring to only 3 of the 5 districts in the overseas territorial collectivity, excluding the claimed district in the Antarctic and the district of Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean (Îles Éparses de l'Océan Indien). Some applications used by other countries than France or international organizations may or may not include the two contested districts, but most of them include the Scattered Islands, including the ISO 3166 standard itself.

External links

• ISO Online Browsing Platform: FR
• Departments of France, Statoids.com