ISO 3166-2:RO

Main article: ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2:RO is the entry for Romania 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 Romania, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 41 departments and 1 municipality. The municipality Bucharest is the capital of the country and has special status equal to the departments.

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

The letters are currently used in vehicle registration plates.

Current codes

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

Subdivision names are sorted in Romanian alphabetical order: a, â, ă, b-i, î, j-s, ș, t, ț, u-z.

Click on the button in the header to sort each column.

Map of Romania with each department and the municipality Bucharest labelled with the second part of its ISO 3166-2 code.
Code Subdivision name Subdivision category
RO-AB Alba department
RO-AR Arad department
RO-AG Argeș department
RO-BC Bacău department
RO-BH Bihor department
RO-BN Bistrița-Năsăud department
RO-BT Botoșani department
RO-BV Brașov department
RO-BR Brăila department
RO-BZ Buzău department
RO-CS Caraș-Severin department
RO-CL Călărași department
RO-CJ Cluj department
RO-CT Constanța department
RO-CV Covasna department
RO-DB Dâmbovița department
RO-DJ Dolj department
RO-GL Galați department
RO-GR Giurgiu department
RO-GJ Gorj department
RO-HR Harghita department
RO-HD Hunedoara department
RO-IL Ialomița department
RO-IS Iași department
RO-IF Ilfov department
RO-MM Maramureș department
RO-MH Mehedinți department
RO-MS Mureș department
RO-NT Neamț department
RO-OT Olt department
RO-PH Prahova department
RO-SM Satu Mare department
RO-SJ Sălaj department
RO-SB Sibiu department
RO-SV Suceava department
RO-TR Teleorman department
RO-TM Timiș department
RO-TL Tulcea department
RO-VS Vaslui department
RO-VL Vâlcea department
RO-VN Vrancea department
RO-B București municipality

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:

Newsletter Date issued Description of change in newsletter Code/Subdivision change
Newsletter I-1 2000-06-21 Correction of spelling mistake of subdivision category in header
Newsletter I-4 2002-12-10 Addition of one department. Subdivision categories in header re-sorted Subdivisions added:
RO-IF Ilfov

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