ISO 3166-2:BJ

The list of ISO -3166 -2 codes for Benin contains the codes for the 12 departments.

The codes are composed of two parts which are separated by a hyphen. The first part indicates the country code according to ISO 3166-1 ( for Benin BJ ), the second the code for the department. The current country code is in the second newsletter of 21 May 2002 (PDF) last updated.

With the change in the second newsletter (ISO 3166-2:2002-05-21 ) were added to the six already existing six new departments Alibori, Collines, Donga, Couffo, Littoral, and Plateau.