ISO 3166-2:MW

Template:Short description ISO 3166-2:MW is the entry for Malawi 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 Malawi, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:

• three regions
• 28 districts

Each code consists of two parts separated by a hyphen. The first part is Template:Mono, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Malawi. The second part is either of the following:

• one letter: regions
• two letters: districts

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:

• (en): English
• (ny): Chichewa

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Regions

Code	Subdivision name (ny)	Subdivision name (en)
Template:Mono	Chakumpoto	Northern Region
Template:Mono	Chakumwera	Southern Region
Template:Mono	Chapakati	Central Region

Districts

Code	Subdivision name (ny, en)	In region
Template:Mono	Balaka	[[Southern Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Blantyre	[[Southern Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Chikwawa	[[Southern Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Chiradzulu	[[Southern Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Chitipa	[[Northern Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Dedza	[[Central Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Dowa	[[Central Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Karonga	[[Northern Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Kasungu	[[Central Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Likoma	[[Northern Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Lilongwe	[[Central Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Machinga	[[Southern Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Mangochi	[[Southern Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Mchinji	[[Central Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Mulanje	[[Southern Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Mwanza	[[Southern Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Mzimba	[[Northern Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Neno	[[Southern Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Nkhata Bay	[[Northern Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Nkhotakota	[[Central Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Nsanje	[[Southern Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Ntcheu	[[Central Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Ntchisi	[[Central Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Phalombe	[[Southern Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Rumphi	[[Northern Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Salima	[[Central Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Thyolo	[[Southern Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]
Template:Mono	Zomba	[[Southern Region (Malawi)|Template:Mono]]

Changes

The following changes to the entry have been announced in newsletters by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO Template:Not a typo in 1998:

Newsletter	Date issued	Description of change in newsletter	Code/Subdivision change
Template:Nowrap	Template:Nowrap	Addition of three districts. List source updated	Subdivisions added: Template:Mono Balaka Template:Mono Likoma Island Template:Mono Phalombe
Template:Nowrap	Template:Nowrap	Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, addition of names in administrative languages, typographical error correction, update of the administrative structure and of the list source	Subdivisions added: Template:Mono Neno

See also

• Subdivisions of Malawi
• FIPS region codes of Malawi
• Neighbouring countries: MZ, TZ, ZM

External links

• ISO Online Browsing Platform: MW
• Districts of Malawi, Statoids.com