ISO 3166-2:MW explained

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:

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

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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Regions

CodeSubdivision name (ny)Subdivision name (en)
ChakumpotoNorthern Region
ChakumweraSouthern Region
ChapakatiCentral Region

Districts

CodeSubdivision name (ny, en)In region
Balaka
Blantyre
Chikwawa
Chiradzulu
Chitipa
Dedza
Dowa
Karonga
Kasungu
Likoma
Lilongwe
Machinga
Mangochi
Mchinji
Mulanje
Mwanza
Mzimba
Neno
Nkhata Bay
Nkhotakota
Nsanje
Ntcheu
Ntchisi
Phalombe
Rumphi
Salima
Thyolo
Zomba

Changes

The following changes to the entry have been announced in newsletters by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO in 1998:

NewsletterDate issuedDescription of change in newsletterCode/Subdivision change
Addition of three districts. List source updatedstyle=white-space:nowrap Subdivisions added:
Balaka
Likoma Island
Phalombe
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 sourcestyle=white-space:nowrap Subdivisions added:
Neno

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