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{{Short description|Entry for Bolivia in ISO 3166-2}}
'''ISO 3166-2:BO''' is the entry for the [[Bolivia|Plurinational State of Bolivia]] in [[ISO 3166-2]], part of the [[ISO 3166]] [[standardization|standard]] published by the [[International Organization for Standardization]] (ISO), which defines [[code]]s for the names of the principal [[country subdivision|subdivision]]s (e.g., [[province]]s or [[state (administrative division)|state]]s) of all [[country|countries]] coded in [[ISO 3166-1]].

Currently for Bolivia, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for [[departments of Bolivia|nine departments]].

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is {{mono|BO}}, the [[ISO 3166-1 alpha-2]] code of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. The second part is a letter, currently used in [[vehicle registration plates of Bolivia|vehicle registration plates]].

==Current codes==
Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).

Subdivision names are sorted in traditional [[Spanish alphabet]]ical order: a-c, ch, d-l, ll, m-n, ñ, o-z.

''Click on the button in the header to sort each column.''

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Code
! Subdivision name ([[Spanish language|es]])
! Subdivision category
|-
| {{mono|BO-C}}
| {{flag|Cochabamba}}
| department
|-
| {{mono|BO-H}}
| {{flag|Chuquisaca}}
| department
|-
| {{mono|BO-B}}
| {{flag|Beni|name=El Beni}}
| department
|-
| {{mono|BO-L}}
| {{flagcountry|La Paz Department}}
| department
|-
| {{mono|BO-O}}
| {{flag|Oruro}}
| department
|-
| {{mono|BO-N}}
| {{flag|Pando}}
| department
|-
| {{mono|BO-P}}
| {{flag|Potosí}}
| department
|-
| {{mono|BO-S}}
| {{flagcountry|Santa Cruz Department}}
| department
|-
| {{mono|BO-T}}
| {{flag|Tarija}}
| department
|}

==Changes==
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. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Newsletter
! Date issued
! Description of change in newsletter
|-
| id="II-1" | [https://www.iso.org/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/archive/pdf/en/iso_3166-2_newsletter_ii-1_corrected_2010-02-19.pdf {{nowrap|Newsletter II-1}}]
| {{nowrap|2010-02-03}}<br /> ''(corrected<br /> {{nowrap|2010-02-19}})''
| Change of short form country name in accordance with [[ISO 3166-1#VI-6|ISO 3166-1, NL VI-6 (2009-05-08)]]
|}

The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Effective date of change
! Short description of change (en)
|-
| 2009-05-08
| Change of short and full names
|-
| 2010-02-19
| Change of short form country name in accordance with ISO 3166-1, NL VI-6 (2009-05-08)
|-
| 2014-11-03
| Update List Source
|-
| 2014-12-18
| Alignment of the English and French short names upper and lower case with UNTERM
|}

==See also==
* [[Subdivisions of Bolivia]]
* [[List of FIPS region codes (A-C)#BL: Bolivia|FIPS region codes of Bolivia]]
* Neighbouring countries: [[ISO 3166-2:AR|AR]], [[ISO 3166-2:BR|BR]], [[ISO 3166-2:CL|CL]], [[ISO 3166-2:PE|PE]], [[ISO 3166-2:PY|PY]]

==External links==
* [https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:BO ISO Online Browsing Platform: BO]
* [http://www.statoids.com/ubo.html Departments of Bolivia], Statoids.com

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