ISO 3166-2:GL

ISO 3166-2:GL is the entry for Greenland 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.

Main article: ISO 3166-2

Currently for Greenland, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 5 municipalities. The Northeast Greenland National Park and the Thule Air Base, which are unincorporated and not part of any municipality, are not listed.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is GL, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Greenland. 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).

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

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Code Subdivision name (kl)
GL-AV Avannaata Kommunia
GL-KU Kommune Kujalleq
GL-QT Kommune Qeqertalik
GL-SM Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq
GL-QE Qeqqata Kommunia

Changes

The following changes to the entry have been announced 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-2 2010-06-30 Addition and update of the administrative structure and of the list and code sources Subdivisions added:
GL-KU Kommune Kujalleq
GL-QA Qaasuitsup Kommunia
GL-QE Qeqqata Kommunia
GL-SM Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq
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Platform (OBP)		 2018-11-26 Deletion of municipality GL-QA; Addition of municipality GL-AV, GL-QT; Update List Source Subdivision deleted:
GL-QA Qaasuitsup Kommunia
Subdivisions added:
GL-AV Avannaata Kommunia
GL-QT Kommune Qeqertalik

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