ISO 3166-2: GW

The list of ISO-3166-2 codes for Guinea-Bissau contains the codes for the three provinces, eight regions, and one autonomous sector.

The codes consist of two parts separated by a hyphen. The first part gives the country code according to ISO 3166-1 (for Guinea-Bissau GW), the second the code for the province, region or sector.

The current country code was last updated in Newsletter II-1 of February 3, 2010 ( PDF ).

The current codes are available on the ISO website under #iso: code: 3166: GW .

The regions and the autonomous sector of Bissau received two-digit letter combinations from BAto TO, and the provinces a single letter.

Codes

Provinces

Region / Sector	code
Leste	GW-L
Norte	GW-N
Sul	GW-S

Regions of Guinea-Bissau

Regions and Sectors

Region / Sector	province	code
Bafatá	L.	GW-BA
Biombo	N	GW-BM
Bissau 1	-	GW-BS
Bolama	S.	GW-BL
Cacheu	N	GW-CA
Gabu	L.	GW-GA
Oio	N	GW-OI
Quinara	S.	GW-QU
Tombali	S.	GW-TO

¹ autonomous sector

See also

• ISO 3166-2 , country code reference table.
• ISO 3166-1 , reference table of country codes as used in domain names.