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Standard:
ISO 3166 — Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions
Committee:
ISO/TC 46
ICS:
01.140.30
Alpha-2 code
NG
Short name
NIGERIA
Short name lower case
Nigeria
Full name
the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Alpha-3 code
NGA
Numeric code
566
Remarks
Independent
Yes
Territory name
Status
Officially assigned
Remark part 1
This code is part of collection(s)
Country Codes Collection
For definition of the different code types, please click here

Additional information

Administrative language(s) alpha-2 Administrative language(s) alpha-3 Local short name
en eng Nigeria

Subdivisions

36 state (en) / État (fr)

1 capital territory (en) / territoire de la capitale (fr)

List source

Embassy of Nigeria to Paris, 1998; http://www.geonames.de/coung.html; http://www.nasarawastatenigeria.com/

Code source

Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON), 1988-05-04 + ISO/TC 46/WG 2 Secretariat (*)

Subdivision category 3166-2 code Subdivision name Language code Romanization system Parent subdivision
state NG-AB* Abia en
capital territory NG-FC Abuja Federal Capital Territory en
state NG-AD* Adamawa en
state NG-AK Akwa Ibom en
state NG-AN* Anambra en
state NG-BA Bauchi en
state NG-BY* Bayelsa en
state NG-BE* Benue en
state NG-BO* Borno en
state NG-CR* Cross River en
state NG-DE* Delta en
state NG-EB* Ebonyi en
state NG-ED* Edo en
state NG-EK* Ekiti en
state NG-EN* Enugu en
state NG-GO* Gombe en
state NG-IM* Imo en
state NG-JI* Jigawa en
state NG-KD Kaduna en
state NG-KN Kano en
state NG-KT Katsina en
state NG-KE* Kebbi en
state NG-KO* Kogi en
state NG-KW* Kwara en
state NG-LA Lagos en
state NG-NA* Nasarawa en
state NG-NI* Niger en
state NG-OG* Ogun en
state NG-ON* Ondo en
state NG-OS* Osun en
state NG-OY* Oyo en
state NG-PL* Plateau en
state NG-RI* Rivers en
state NG-SO Sokoto en
state NG-TA* Taraba en
state NG-YO* Yobe en
state NG-ZA* Zamfara en

Change history of country code

Effective date of change Short description of change (en) Short description of change (fr)
2014-11-03 Change spelling of NG-NA; update List Source Modification de l'orthographe de NG-NA; modification des noms des subdivisions; mise à jour de la Liste Source
2010-06-30 Consistency between ISO 3166-1 and ISO 3166-2, addition of names in administrative languages Cohérence de la partie 1 et de la partie 2 résultant de la réalité linguistique.
2008-09-09 Deletion of French (fr, fra) as an administrative language Suppression du français (fr, fra) en tant que langue administrative