ISO 3166-2:CG is the entry for the Republic of the Congo (called simply "Congo" in the standard) 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., provincesorstates) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
Currently for the Republic of the Congo, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 12 departments. All subdivisions changed their status to departments in 2002.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is CG, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the Republic of the Congo. The second part is either of the following:
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 (fr) | Subdivision name (en)[1] |
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| CG-11 | Bouenza | Bouenza |
| CG-BZV | Brazzaville | Brazzaville |
| CG-8 | Cuvette | Cuvette |
| CG-15 | Cuvette-Ouest | West Cuvette |
| CG-5 | Kouilou | Kouilou |
| CG-2 | Lékoumou | Lekoumou |
| CG-7 | Likouala | Likouala |
| CG-9 | Niari | Niari |
| CG-14 | Plateaux | Plateaux |
| CG-16 | Pointe-Noire | Black Point |
| CG-12 | Pool | Pool |
| CG-13 | Sangha | Sangha |
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) |
|---|---|
| 2014-10-29 | Change Subdivision category ‘region’ to ‘department’; change ‘capital’ to ‘department’; update List Source |
| 2014-12-18 | Alignment of the English short name lower case with UNTERM |
| 2015-02-12 | Add 1 department CG-16 |
| 2015-02-26 | Correction of the OBP entry error as follows: change of the font character from a dash to a hyphen in the name for Pointe-Noire |
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ISO 3166 – Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions
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| ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes |
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| ISO 3166-3 codes for former names of countries |
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