# ISO 3166-2:FR

ISO 3166-2:FR is the entry for France 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 France, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for the following subdivisions:
* Metropolitan France (three levels):
** 12 metropolitan regions
** three metropolitan collectivities with special status
** 95 metropolitan departments
** one European collectivity
* Overseas France:
** one dependency
** five overseas collectivities
** one overseas collectivity with special status
** three overseas departmental collectivities
** one overseas territory
** two overseas unique territorial collectivities
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is FR, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of France. The second part is either of the following:
* one digit followed by two letters: European collectivity
* two digits: metropolitan departments
* two digits followed by a letter: metropolitan collectivities with special status
* two letters: overseas collectivities, overseas collectivity with special status, overseas territory (matching their ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes)
* three letters: metropolitan regions
* three digits: overseas departmental collectivities, overseas unique territorial collectivities
The metropolitan departments use their INSEE codes, which are currently used in postal codes, and used in vehicle registration plates until 2009. INSEE codes are assigned as follows:
* 01–89 except 20: departments created before the 20th century, assigned in alphabetical order (prefixes in the form of "Bas-" and "Haute-" are ignored at the primary sort level), except Paris and Yvelines, which replaced the former departments Seine and Seine-et-Oise respectively after the reorganization of the Paris region in 1968;
* 90: Territoire de Belfort, which was given department status in 1922;
* 91–95: departments created after the reorganization of the Paris region in 1968;
* 2A and 2B: Corse-du-Sud and Haute-Corse, which were created after the division of Corsica in 1975, whose INSEE code was 20.

## 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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### First-level metropolitan subdivisions

| Code | Subdivision name (fr) | Subdivision name (en) | Subdivision category |
| FR-ARA | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | Auvergne-Rhone-Alps | metropolitan region |
| FR-BFC | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | Burgundy-Free County | metropolitan region |
| FR-BRE | Bretagne | Brittany | metropolitan region |
| FR-CVL | Centre-Val de Loire | Center-Loire Valley | metropolitan region |
| FR-20R | Corse | Corsica | metropolitan collectivity with special status |
| FR-GES | Grand Est | Great East | metropolitan region |
| FR-HDF | Hauts-de-France | Upper France | metropolitan region |
| FR-IDF | Île-de-France | Paris | metropolitan region |
| FR-NOR | Normandie | Normandy | metropolitan region |
| FR-NAQ | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | New Aquitania | metropolitan region |
| FR-OCC | Occitanie | Occitania | metropolitan region |
| FR-PDL | Pays-de-la-Loire | Loire Country | metropolitan region |
| FR-PAC | Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur | Provence-Alps-French Riviera | metropolitan region |

### Second-level subdivisions

| Code | Subdivision name (fr) | Subdivision name (en) | Subdivision category | In subdivision |
| FR-01 | Ain | Ain | metropolitan department | ARA |
| FR-02 | Aisne | Aisne | metropolitan department | HDF |
| FR-03 | Allier | Allier | metropolitan department | ARA |
| FR-04 | Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | Alps of Upper Provence | metropolitan department | PAC |
| FR-06 | Alpes-Maritimes | Maritime Alps | metropolitan department | PAC |
| FR-6AE | Alsace | Alsace | European collectivity | GES |
| FR-07 | Ardèche | Ardeche | metropolitan department | ARA |
| FR-08 | Ardennes | Ardennes | metropolitan department | GES |
| FR-09 | Ariège | Ariege | metropolitan department | OCC |
| FR-10 | Aube | Aube | metropolitan department | GES |
| FR-11 | Aude | Aude | metropolitan department | OCC |
| FR-12 | Aveyron | Aveyron | metropolitan department | OCC |
| FR-13 | Bouches-du-Rhône | Rhone Delta | metropolitan department | PAC |
| FR-14 | Calvados | Calvados | metropolitan department | NOR |
| FR-15 | Cantal | Cantal | metropolitan department | ARA |
| FR-16 | Charente | Charente | metropolitan department | NAQ |
| FR-17 | Charente-Maritime | Maritime Charente | metropolitan department | NAQ |
| FR-18 | Cher | Cher | metropolitan department | CVL |
| FR-19 | Corrèze | Correze | metropolitan department | NAQ |
| FR-2A | Corse-du-Sud | Southern Corsica | metropolitan department | 20R |
| FR-21 | Côte-d'Or | Gold Coast | metropolitan department | BFC |
| FR-22 | Côtes-d'Armor | Sea Coasts | metropolitan department | BRE |
| FR-23 | Creuse | Creuse | metropolitan department | NAQ |
| FR-79 | Deux-Sèvres | Two Sevres | metropolitan department | NAQ |
| FR-24 | Dordogne | Dordogne | metropolitan department | NAQ |
| FR-25 | Doubs | Doubs | metropolitan department | BFC |
| FR-26 | Drôme | Drome | metropolitan department | ARA |
| FR-91 | Essonne | Essonne | metropolitan department | IDF |
| FR-27 | Eure | Eure | metropolitan department | NOR |
| FR-28 | Eure-et-Loir | Eure and Loir | metropolitan department | CVL |
| FR-29 | Finistère | Finistere | metropolitan department | BRE |
| FR-30 | Gard | Gard | metropolitan department | OCC |
| FR-32 | Gers | Gers | metropolitan department | OCC |
| FR-33 | Gironde | Gironde | metropolitan department | NAQ |
| FR-971 | Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe | overseas departmental collectivity | - |
| FR-973 | Guyane (française) | French Guiana | overseas unique territorial collectivity | - |
| FR-2B | Haute-Corse | Upper Corsica | metropolitan department | 20R |
| FR-31 | Haute-Garonne | Upper Garonne | metropolitan department | OCC |
| FR-43 | Haute-Loire | Upper Loire | metropolitan department | ARA |
| FR-52 | Haute-Marne | Upper Marne | metropolitan department | GES |
| FR-70 | Haute-Saône | Upper Saone | metropolitan department | BFC |
| FR-74 | Haute-Savoie | Upper Savoy | metropolitan department | ARA |
| FR-87 | Haute-Vienne | Upper Vienne | metropolitan department | NAQ |
| FR-05 | Hautes-Alpes | Upper Alps | metropolitan department | PAC |
| FR-65 | Hautes-Pyrénées | Upper Pyrenees | metropolitan department | OCC |
| FR-92 | Hauts-de-Seine | Upper Seine | metropolitan department | IDF |
| FR-34 | Hérault | Herault | metropolitan department | OCC |
| FR-35 | Ille-et-Vilaine | Ille and Vilaine | metropolitan department | BRE |
| FR-36 | Indre | Indre | metropolitan department | CVL |
| FR-37 | Indre-et-Loire | Indre and Loire | metropolitan department | CVL |
| FR-38 | Isère | Isere | metropolitan department | ARA |
| FR-39 | Jura | Jura | metropolitan department | BFC |
| FR-974 | La Réunion | Reunion | overseas departmental collectivity | - |
| FR-40 | Landes | Landes | metropolitan department | NAQ |
| FR-41 | Loir-et-Cher | Loir and Cher | metropolitan department | CVL |
| FR-42 | Loire | Loire | metropolitan department | ARA |
| FR-44 | Loire-Atlantique | Atlantic Loire | metropolitan department | PDL |
| FR-45 | Loiret | Loiret | metropolitan department | CVL |
| FR-46 | Lot | Lot | metropolitan department | OCC |
| FR-47 | Lot-et-Garonne | Lot and Garonne | metropolitan department | NAQ |
| FR-48 | Lozère | Lozere | metropolitan department | OCC |
| FR-49 | Maine-et-Loire | Maine and Loire | metropolitan department | PDL |
| FR-50 | Manche | Channel | metropolitan department | NOR |
| FR-51 | Marne | Marne | metropolitan department | GES |
| FR-972 | Martinique | Martinique | overseas unique territorial collectivity | - |
| FR-53 | Mayenne | Mayenne | metropolitan department | PDL |
| FR-976 | Mayotte | Mayotte | overseas departmental collectivity | - |
| FR-69M | Métropole de Lyon | Greater Lyon | metropolitan collectivity with special status | ARA |
| FR-54 | Meurthe-et-Moselle | Meurthe and Moselle | metropolitan department | GES |
| FR-55 | Meuse | Meuse | metropolitan department | GES |
| FR-56 | Morbihan | Morbihan | metropolitan department | BRE |
| FR-57 | Moselle | Moselle | metropolitan department | GES |
| FR-58 | Nièvre | Nievre | metropolitan department | BFC |
| FR-59 | Nord | North | metropolitan department | HDF |
| FR-60 | Oise | Oise | metropolitan department | HDF |
| FR-61 | Orne | Orne | metropolitan department | NOR |
| FR-75C | Paris | City of Paris | metropolitan collectivity with special status | IDF |
| FR-62 | Pas-de-Calais | Strait of Calais | metropolitan department | HDF |
| FR-63 | Puy-de-Dôme | Puy de Dome | metropolitan department | ARA |
| FR-64 | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | Atlantic Pyrenees | metropolitan department | NAQ |
| FR-66 | Pyrénées-Orientales | Eastern Pyrenees | metropolitan department | OCC |
| FR-69 | Rhône | Rhône | metropolitan department | ARA |
| FR-71 | Saône-et-Loire | Saone and Loire | metropolitan department | BFC |
| FR-72 | Sarthe | Sarthe | metropolitan department | PDL |
| FR-73 | Savoie | Savoy | metropolitan department | ARA |
| FR-77 | Seine-et-Marne | Seine and Marne | metropolitan department | IDF |
| FR-76 | Seine-Maritime | Maritime Seine | metropolitan department | NOR |
| FR-93 | Seine-Saint-Denis | Saint Denis Seine | metropolitan department | IDF |
| FR-80 | Somme | Somme | metropolitan department | HDF |
| FR-81 | Tarn | Tarn | metropolitan department | OCC |
| FR-82 | Tarn-et-Garonne | Tarn and Garonne | metropolitan department | OCC |
| FR-90 | Territoire de Belfort | Belfort Territory | metropolitan department | BFC |
| FR-95 | Val-d'Oise | Oise Valley | metropolitan department | IDF |
| FR-94 | Val-de-Marne | Marne Valley | metropolitan department | IDF |
| FR-83 | Var | Var | metropolitan department | PAC |
| FR-84 | Vaucluse | Vaucluse | metropolitan department | PAC |
| FR-85 | Vendée | Vendee | metropolitan department | PDL |
| FR-86 | Vienne | Vienne | metropolitan department | NAQ |
| FR-88 | Vosges | Vosges | metropolitan department | GES |
| FR-89 | Yonne | Yonne | metropolitan department | BFC |
| FR-78 | Yvelines | Yvelines | metropolitan department | IDF |

#### Explanatory note

* ↑ The FR-69 code in ISO 316-2 still covers the department of Rhône as it was before 1 January 2015 when it was split in two parts, one of which is no longer a department but a métropole with specific status. Still, the Métropole de Lyon and the new department of Rhône are administratively managed by the French state as a single circonscription départementale (departmental constituency) that keeps the old department code. Where distinction is needed, INSEE uses 69 to cover the new circonscription départementale du Rhône for the state-controlled administration in its préfecture (covering the whole former département du Rhône before January 2015), and assigned new codes for the two separate local collectivities: 69D for the new (smaller) département du Rhône, and 69M for the new Métropole de Lyon.

### Third-level subdivisions

| Code | Subdivision name (fr) | Subdivision name (en) | Subdivision category | In subdivision |
| FR-67 | Bas-Rhin | Lower Rhine | metropolitan department | 6AE |
| FR-68 | Haut-Rhin | Upper Rhine | metropolitan department | 6AE |

### Dependency, overseas territory, and overseas collectivities

| Code | Subdivision name (fr) | Subdivision name (en) | Subdivision category |
| FR-CP | Clipperton | Clipperton | dependency |
| FR-NC | Nouvelle-Calédonie | New Caledonia | overseas collectivity with special status |
| FR-PF | Polynésie française | French Polynesia | overseas collectivity |
| FR-BL | Saint-Barthélemy | Saint Barts | overseas collectivity |
| FR-MF | Saint-Martin | Saint Martin | overseas collectivity |
| FR-PM | Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon | Saint Peter and Miquelon | overseas collectivity |
| FR-TF | Terres australes françaises | French Southern Territories | overseas territory |
| FR-WF | Wallis-et-Futuna | Wallis and Futuna | overseas collectivity |

#### Notes

* 1 2 3 4 For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.

## Subdivisions included in ISO 3166-1

Besides being included as subdivisions of France in ISO 3166-2, several subdivisions are also officially assigned their own country codes in ISO 3166-1.
| Code | Subdivision name (fr) | ISO 3166-1 English name | ISO 3166-1 French name | ISO 3166-2 code |
| FR-971 | Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe | ISO 3166-2:GP |
| FR-973 | Guyane (française) | French Guiana | Guyane française | ISO 3166-2:GF |
| FR-974 | La Réunion | Réunion | Réunion | ISO 3166-2:RE |
| FR-972 | Martinique | Martinique | Martinique | ISO 3166-2:MQ |
| FR-976 | Mayotte | Mayotte | Mayotte | ISO 3166-2:YT |
| FR-NC | Nouvelle-Calédonie | New Caledonia | Nouvelle-Calédonie | ISO 3166-2:NC |
| FR-PF | Polynésie française | French Polynesia | Polynésie française | ISO 3166-2:PF |
| FR-BL | Saint-Barthélemy | Saint Barthélemy | Saint-Barthélemy | ISO 3166-2:BL |
| FR-MF | Saint-Martin | Saint Martin (French part) | Saint-Martin (partie française) | ISO 3166-2:MF |
| FR-PM | Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon | Saint Pierre and Miquelon | Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon | ISO 3166-2:PM |
| FR-TF | Terres australes françaises | French Southern Territories | Terres australes françaises | ISO 3166-2:TF |
| FR-WF | Wallis-et-Futuna | Wallis and Futuna | Wallis-et-Futuna | ISO 3166-2:WF |
The dependency Clipperton Island (FR-CP) is also exceptionally reserved the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code CP on the request of the International Telecommunication Union.
Metropolitan France (the part of France located in Europe) was previously officially assigned its own set of country codes in ISO 3166-1, with alpha-2 code FX, before it was deleted from ISO 3166-1. The code is now exceptionally reserved on the request of France.

### Explanatory note

* 1 2 The overseas territorial collectivy of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (Terres australes et antarctiques françaises in French) is also administratively covering (as one of its districts) the Adélie Land claimed by France in the Antarctic, but it is also part of the Antarctic and normally not covered by the ISO 3166-1 TF code or ISO 3166-2 FR-TF code, but by the ISO 3166-1 AQ code. The French Southern Lands (Terres australes françaises in French) are referring to only 3 of the 5 districts in the overseas territorial collectivity, excluding the claimed district in the Antarctic and the district of Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean (Îles Éparses de l'Océan Indien). Some applications used by other countries than France or international organizations may or may not include the two contested districts, but most of them include the Scattered Islands, including the ISO 3166 standard itself.

## 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.
| Source | Date issued | Description of change | Code/Subdivision change |
| Newsletter I-2 | 2002-05-21 | Correction of the Metropolitan region code in FR-79 | |
| Newsletter I-9 | 2007-11-28 | Addition of administrative subdivisions and of their code elements | Subdivisions added: FR-CP Clipperton FR-BL Saint-Barthélemy FR-MF Saint-Martin |
| Newsletter II-1 | 2010-02-03 (corrected 2010-02-19) | Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, alphabetical re-ordering | |
| Newsletter II-3 | 2011-12-13 (corrected 2011-12-15) | NL II-2 correction for ultramarine administrative organisation change and alphabetical re-ordering. | Category change: FR-YT Mayotte overseas territorial collectivity → overseas department |
| Online Browsing Platform (OBP) | 2016-11-15 | Change of the delimitation of the regions, reducing their number from 22 to 13 in metropolitan France, change of parent subdivision of metropolitan departments; addition of overseas regions FR-GUA, FR-LRE, FR-MAY; change of subdivision category from overseas department to overseas territorial collectivity for FR-GF, FR-MQ; update List Source. | Subdivisions added: FR-GUA Guadeloupe FR-LRE La Réunion FR-MAY Mayotte Category change: FR-GF overseas department → overseas territorial collectivity FR-MQ overseas department → overseas territorial collectivity |
| Online Browsing Platform (OBP) | 2016-11-15 | Correction of the OBP entry error as follows: deletion of Clipperton Island, France, Metropolitan in the name field for Territory. | |
| Online Browsing Platform (OBP) | 2016-12-07 | Correction of parent subdivision of FR-02, FR-60, FR-80 from FR-PDL to FR-HDF | Parent changes: FR-02 FR-PDL → FR-HDF FR-60 FR-PDL → FR-HDF FR-80 FR-PDL → FR-HDF |
| Online Browsing Platform (OBP) | 2018-11-26 | Addition of category name "collectivity" in eng/fra; Change of category name from metropolitan region to collectivity for FR-COR; Update List Source | Category change: FR-COR metropolitan region → collectivity |
| Online Browsing Platform (OBP) | 2020-11-24 | Change of category name from collectivity to metropolitan collectivity with special status for FR-COR; Change of category name from overseas department to overseas region for FR-GP, FR-RE, FR-YT; Deletion of parent subdivision of FR-GP, FR-RE, FR-YT; Change of category name from overseas region to overseas department for FR-GUA, FR-LRE, FR-MAY; Change of subdivision code from FR-COR to FR-20R, FR-GUA to FR-971, FR-LRE to FR-974, FR-MAY to FR-976; Assign parent subdivision to FR-971, FR-974, FR-976; Change of parent subdivision of FR-972, FR-973; Change of category name from overseas territorial collectivity to overseas collectivity for FR-BL, FR-MF, FR-PF, FR-PM, FR-WF; Addition of category overseas territory with specific status, overseas territory; Change of category name from overseas territorial collectivity to overseas collectivity with special status for FR-NC; Change of category name from overseas territorial collectivity to overseas territory for FR-TF; Update List Source and Code Source | Category changes: FR-COR collectivity → metropolitan collectivity with special status FR-GP overseas department → overseas region FR-RE overseas department → overseas region FR-YT overseas department → overseas region FR-GUA overseas region → overseas department FR-LRE overseas region → overseas department FR-MAY overseas region → overseas department FR-BL overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity FR-MF overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity FR-PF overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity FR-PM overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity FR-WF overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity FR-NC overseas territorial collectivity → overseas collectivity with special status FR-TF overseas territorial collectivity → overseas territory Code changes: FR-COR → FR-20R FR-GUA → FR-971 FR-LRE → FR-974 FR-MAY → FR-976 Subdivisions added: FR-972 Martinique (parent FR-MQ) FR-973 Guyane (française) (parent FR-GF) |
| Online Browsing Platform (OBP) | 2021-11-25 | Addition of category European collectivity in eng & fra; Addition of European collectivity FR-6AE; Addition of metropolitan collectivity with special status FR-69M; Change of category name from metropolitan department to metropolitan collectivity with special status for FR-75; Change of subdivision code from FR-75 to FR-75C; Addition of category overseas departmental collectivity in English & French; Change of category name from overseas department to overseas departmental collectivity for FR-971, FR-974, FR-976; Addition of category overseas unique territorial collectivity in eng & fra; Change of category name from overseas department to overseas unique territorial collectivity for FR-972, FR-973; Deletion of category name overseas department; Deletion of overseas region FR-GF, FR-GP, FR-MQ, FR-RE, FR-YT; Deletion of category name overseas region; Change of parent subdivision of FR-67, FR-68; Deletion of parent subdivision of FR-971, FR-972, FR-973, FR-974, FR-976; Modification of Remark part 2; Update List Source and Code Source | Codes added: FR-6AE Alsace FR-69M Métropole de Lyon Codes changed: FR-75 Paris (metropolitan department) → FR-75C Paris (metropolitan collectivity with special status) Codes removed: FR-GF Guyane (française) FR-GP Guadeloupe FR-MQ Martinique FR-RE La Réunion FR-YT Mayotte Category changes: FR-971 overseas department → overseas departmental collectivity FR-972 overseas department → overseas unique territorial collectivity FR-973 overseas department → overseas unique territorial collectivity FR-974 overseas department → overseas departmental collectivity FR-976 overseas department → overseas departmental collectivity Parent changes: FR-67 FR-GES → FR-6AE FR-68 FR-GES → FR-6AE |

### Explanatory note

* 1 2 Erroneusly listed in the description as a non-existent FR-GR.

### Former metropolitan regions (before 31 December 2015)

| Former code | Subdivision name (fr) | Subdivision name (en) | Part of new region since 2016 (fr) |
| FR-A | Alsace | Alsace | Grand Est |
| FR-B | Aquitaine | Aquitaine | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
| FR-C | Auvergne | Auvergne | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
| FR-P | Basse-Normandie | Lower Normandy | Normandie |
| FR-D | Bourgogne | Burgundy | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté |
| FR-E | Bretagne | Brittany | Bretagne |
| FR-F | Centre-Val de Loire | Centre-Val de Loire | Centre-Val de Loire |
| FR-G | Champagne-Ardenne | Champagne-Ardenne | Grand Est |
| FR-H | Corse | Corsica | Corse |
| FR-I | Franche-Comté | Franche-Comté | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté |
| FR-Q | Haute-Normandie | Upper Normandy | Normandie |
| FR-J | Île-de-France | Île-de-France | Île-de-France |
| FR-K | Languedoc-Roussillon | Languedoc-Roussillon | Occitanie |
| FR-L | Limousin | Limousin | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
| FR-M | Lorraine | Lorraine | Grand Est |
| FR-N | Midi-Pyrénées | Midi-Pyrénées | Occitanie |
| FR-O | Nord-Pas-de-Calais | Nord-Pas-de-Calais | Hauts-de-France |
| FR-R | Pays de la Loire | Pays de la Loire | Pays de la Loire |
| FR-S | Picardie | Picardy | Hauts-de-France |
| FR-T | Poitou-Charentes | Poitou-Charentes | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
| FR-U | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
| FR-V | Rhône-Alpes | Rhône-Alpes | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |

#### Notes

* ↑ See English Channel
* ↑ See Straits of Calais
* ↑ A volcano, see Puy de Dôme
* ↑ Although named after the Var River, this river is not actually located within the territory of the département
* ↑ On 1 January 2015, the former region Centre was officially renamed to Centre-Val de Loire.