ISO 3166-2:LY  ISO 3166-2:LY is the entry for Libya 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 Libya, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 22 popularates. Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Libya. The second part is two letters. Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA). "Click on the button in the header to sort each column." 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. The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform: