ISO 3166-2:AL

ISO 3166-2:AL is the entry for Albania 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 Albania, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 12 counties.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is AL, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Albania. The second part is two digits.

The codes for the counties are assigned in Albanian alphabetical order, except Dibër, whose code is assigned based on its capital, Peshkopi.

Newsletter	Date issued	Description of change in newsletter	Code/Subdivision change
Newsletter I-2	2002-05-21	Introduction of 12 prefectures with their code elements. One district name and its code element changed. One district name corrected. Attribution of the prefecture code element to each district	Subdivisions added: 12 prefectures (now called counties) Codes: AL-LA Laç → AL-KB Kurbin
Newsletter I-6	2004-03-08	Change of generic term for administrative divisions. New list source
Newsletter II-1	2010-02-03 (corrected 2010-02-19)	Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element	Codes: format changed (leading digit 0 added)

Effective date of change	Short description of change (en)
2015-11-27	Change of subdivision category from préfecture to comté in French; deletion of all districts; update List Source
2014-04-03	Separation of the variant local short names by semi-colon
2010-02-19	Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element

Current codes