ISO 3166-2:LK

Main article: ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2:LK is the entry for Sri Lanka 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 Sri Lanka, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:

• 9 provinces
• 25 districts

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

• one digit (1–9): provinces
• two digits: districts

For the districts, the first digit is the second part of the ISO 3166-2 code of the province where the district is in.

Current codes

Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).

ISO 639-1 codes are used to represent subdivision names in the following administrative languages:

• (si): Sinhalese
• (ta): Tamil
• (en): English

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Provinces

Code	Subdivision name (en)	Subdivision name (si)	Subdivision name (ta)
LK-1	Western Province	Basnāhira paḷāta	Mel mākāṇam
LK-2	Central Province	Madhyama paḷāta	Mattiya mākāṇam
LK-3	Southern Province	Dakuṇu paḷāta	Tĕṉ mākāṇam
LK-4	Northern Province	Uturu paḷāta	Vaṭakku mākāṇam
LK-5	Eastern Province	Næ̆gĕnahira paḷāta	Kil̮akku mākāṇam
LK-6	North Western Province	Vayamba paḷāta	Vaṭamel mākāṇam
LK-7	North Central Province	Uturumæ̆da paḷāta	Vaṭamattiya mākāṇam
LK-8	Uva Province	Ūva paḷāta	Ūvā mākāṇam
LK-9	Sabaragamuwa Province	Sabaragamuva paḷāta	Chappirakamuva mākāṇam

Districts

Code	Subdivision name (en)	Subdivision name (si)	Subdivision name (ta)	Parent subdivision
LK-11	Colombo	Kŏḷamba	Kŏl̮umpu	LK-1
LK-12	Gampaha	Gampaha	Kampahā	LK-1
LK-13	Kalutara	Kaḷutara	Kaḷuttuṟai	LK-1
LK-21	Kandy	Mahanuvara	Kaṇṭi	LK-2
LK-22	Matale	Mātale	Māttaḷai	LK-2
LK-23	Nuwara Eliya	Nuvara Ĕliya	Nuvarĕliyā	LK-2
LK-31	Galle	Gālla	Kāli	LK-3
LK-32	Matara	Mātara	Māttaṛai	LK-3
LK-33	Hambantota	Hambantŏṭa	Ampāntōṭṭai	LK-3
LK-41	Jaffna	Yāpanaya	Yāl̮ppāṇam	LK-4
LK-42	Kilinochchi	Kilinŏchchi	Kiḷinochchi	LK-4
LK-43	Mannar	Mannārama	Maṉṉār	LK-4
LK-44	Vavuniya	Vavuniyāva	Vavuṉiyā	LK-4
LK-45	Mullaittivu	Mulativ	Mullaittīvu	LK-4
LK-51	Batticaloa	Maḍakalapuva	Maṭṭakkaḷappu	LK-5
LK-52	Ampara	Ampāra	Ampāṟai	LK-5
LK-53	Trincomalee	Trikuṇāmalaya	Tirukŏṇamalai	LK-5
LK-61	Kurunegala	Kuruṇægala	Kurunākal	LK-6
LK-62	Puttalam	Puttalama	Puttaḷam	LK-6
LK-71	Anuradhapura	Anurādhapura	Anurātapuram	LK-7
LK-72	Polonnaruwa	Pŏḷŏnnaruva	Pŏlaṉṉaṛuvai	LK-7
LK-81	Badulla	Badulla	Patuḷai	LK-8
LK-82	Monaragala	Mŏṇarāgala	Mŏṉarākalai	LK-8
LK-91	Ratnapura	Ratnapura	Irattiṉapuri	LK-9
LK-92	Kegalla	Kægalla	Kekālai	LK-9

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
Newsletter II-1	2010-02-03 (corrected 2010-02-19)	Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, addition of names in administrative languages

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)
2014-12-18	Alignment of the French short name lower case with UNTERM; update of the remarks in French
2012-08-02	Add administrative language
2010-02-19	Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, addition of names in administrative languages

See also

• Subdivisions of Sri Lanka
• FIPS region codes of Sri Lanka

External links

• ISO Online Browsing Platform: LK
• Provinces of Sri Lanka, Statoids.com