ISO 3166-2:ER explained

ISO 3166-2:ER is the entry for Eritrea 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 Eritrea, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 6 regions.

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

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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Subdivision name (ar) (BGN/PCGN 1956)	(ar) ^[1]	Subdivision name (ti) (BGN/PCGN 2007)	(ti) ^[2]	(en) ^[3]
Al Awsaţ	الأوسط	Ma’ĭkel	ማእከል	Central
Al Janūbī	الجنوبي	Debub	ደቡብ	Southern
Ansabā	أنسابا		ዓንሰባ	Anseba
Janūbī al Baḩrī al Aḩmar	جنوبي البحري الأحمر	Debubawi K’eyyĭḥ Baḥri	ደቡባዊ ቀይሕ ባሕሪ	Southern Red Sea
Qāsh-Barkah	قش بركاح	Gash-Barka	ጋሽ ባርካ	Gash-Barka
	الشمالي البهري آل الأحمر		ሰሜናዊ ቀይሕ ባሕሪ	Northern Red Sea

For reference only, Arabic name in Arabic script not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
For reference only, Tigrinya name in Tigrinya script not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.

The following changes to the entry have been announced in newsletters by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998:

Newsletter	Date issued	Description of change in newsletter	Code/Subdivision change
		Introduction of a completely new subdivision layout	style=white-space:nowrap	Subdivision layout: 10 provinces (see below) → 6 provinces
	(corrected )	Country name romanization adjustment, language adjustment, alphabetical re-ordering and source list update.