ISO 3166-2:QA is the entry for Qatar 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 Qatar, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 8 municipalities.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is QA, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Qatar. 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 (ar)
(BGN/PCGN 1956)
QA-DA Ad Dawḩah
QA-KH Al Khawr wa adh Dhakhīrah
QA-WA Al Wakrah
QA-RA Ar Rayyān
QA-MS Ash Shamāl
QA-SH Ash Shīḩānīyah
QA-ZA Az̧ Z̧a‘āyin
QA-US Umm Şalāl

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-3 2011-12-13
(corrected
2011-12-15)		 Update resulting from the addition of names in administrative languages, and update of the administrative structure and of the list source Subdivisions added:
QA-ZA Az̧ Za̧`āyin
Subdivisions deleted:
QA-GH Al Ghuwayrīyah
QA-JU Al Jumaylīyah
QA-JB Jarīyān al Bāţnah

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)
2011-12-13 Update resulting from the addition of names in administrative languages, and update of the administrative structure and of the list source
2017-11-23 Addition of municipality QA-SH

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