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Updates: 

A new area called Le Portier is under development. It will become the eleventh secteur, if completed.

FIPS PUB 10-4 is the U.S. Federal standard for administrative divisions of countries. Change 3 to FIPS PUB 10-4 is dated May 17, 1999. One of the changes was to drop the list of divisions for Monaco. FIPS has concluded, as I did, that the quartiers don't count as primary administrative divisions.

Country overview: 

Short name	MONACO
ISO code	MC
FIPS code	MN
Language	French (fr)
Time zone	+1 ~
Capital	Monaco

 

Monaco has been independent for the entire 20th century.

Other names of country: 

1. Danish: Monaco
2. Dutch: Monaco, Vorstendom Monaco (formal)
3. English: Principality of Monaco (formal)
4. Finnish: Monaco
5. French: Monaco, Principauté f de Monaco m (formal)
6. German: Monaco n
7. Icelandic: Mónakó
8. Italian: Monaco, Principato m di Monaco m (formal)
9. Norwegian: Monaco, Fyrstedømmet Monaco (formal)
10. Portuguese: Mónaco, Mônaco (Brazil), Principado m do Mónaco m (formal)
11. Spanish: Mónaco, Principado m de Mónaco m (formal)
12. Swedish: Monaco

Origin of name: 

Italian monaco: monk; or from Greek monoikos: one house

Primary subdivisions: 

Monaco has one commune, which is coextensive with the country.

Commune	HASC	Population	Area(km.²)	Area(mi.²)	Capital
Monaco	MC.MC	31,109	2	1	Monaco
HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision code. Population: 2008-06-09 census

Postal codes: 

Monaco uses five-digit postal codes from the French system. They always begin with "980". Monégasque addresses can be identified by prefixing the postal codes with "MC-".

Further subdivisions:

According to the 2008 census report , the commune of Monaco is subdivided into four quartiers (districts or neighborhoods), which are further subdivided into ten secteurs (sectors or wards). The quartiers are Fontvieille, La Condamine, Monaco-Ville, and Monte-Carlo. Fontvieille is the newest one, occupying land reclaimed from the sea between 1964 and 1973. In various sources, Moneghetti, Larvotto, Saint Roman, and other areas are also called quartiers. It appears that the term quartier is used rather loosely in Monaco.

Until 1999, the FIPS standard included codes for three quartiers of Monaco: La Condamine (MN01), Monaco-Ville (MN02), and Monte-Carlo (MN03).

Territorial extent: 

Monaco borders only one other country: France. It escapes being an enclave only because of its seacoast.

Change history: 

1. 1911-01-05: Under Monaco's first constitution, the country consisted of the communes of La Condamine, Monaco-Ville, and Monte-Carlo.
2. 1917-11-18: Monaco commune formed by merging the three communes.
3. ~1973: Fontvieille quartier formed on land reclaimed from the sea. It comprises just one secteur, also called Fontvieille.

Population history:

Census	Population
1903	15,543
1908	19,121
1918	15,960
1928	24,927
1938	23,956
1951	20,202
1962	21,783
1975	25,029
1982	27,463
1990	29,972
2000	32,020
2008	31,109