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Revision as of 12:10, 7 February 2021

The Chapman Code is a coding system used in genealogy to identify the administrative divisions in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.

It was created by Dr Colin Chapman and is largely a superset of the ISO 3166-2:GB and BS 6879 systems.

Country codes[edit | edit source]

Channel Islands[edit | edit source]

England[edit | edit source]

Pre-1974 counties[edit | edit source]

Scotland[edit | edit source]

Pre-1974 counties[edit | edit source]

1975-1996 regions[edit | edit source]

Wales[edit | edit source]

Pre-1974 counties[edit | edit source]

1974-1996 counties[edit | edit source]

Ireland[edit | edit source]