governorate of Bahrain

Update 12 to Geopolitical Entities and Codes (formerly FIPS 10-4) is dated 2013-06-30. It says that the codes for Central and Northern governorates were issued correctly, but were switched in a recompilation of the standard document. This update restores them to the correct codes, as shown below. FIPS 10-4 Change Notice 12, dated 2007-06-11, has FIPS codes for the new governorates. The table has been updated accordingly. It uses different Arabic names for some of the divisions, which I report as variants under "Other names of subdivisions". The UN LOCODE page for Bahrain lists locations in the country, some of them with their latitudes and longitudes, some with their ISO 3166-2 codes for their subdivisions. This information can be put together to approximate the territorial extent of subdivisions. 1. 2001-03-16: International Court of Justice ruled on territorial disputes between Bahrain and Qatar, awarding the Hawar Islands to Bahrain and the city of Zubarah and its environs to Qatar. 2. 2002-07-03: Decree-Law No. 17 for 2002 replaced the ten divisions with five governorates. Postal codes are three or four digits. They consist of the ISO region code followed by two additional digits, with the leading zero suppressed. 1. 2014-09-25: Central governorate abolished and split up among Capital, Northern, and Southern.