ISO 3166-2:NP is the entry for Nepal 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 Nepal, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:
- 5 development regions
- 14 zones
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is NP, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Nepal. The second part is either of the following:
- one digit (1–5): development regions
- two letters: zones
Read more about ISO 3166-2:NP: Current Codes, Changes