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Updates: 

Added 2014 population figures from source [2].

Source [1], accessed in 2004, listed postal codes for the seven parishes and 52 localities. There were only seven distinct codes mentioned in the document. The last two digits were "00" in all instances. The more recent version has some codes ending in "01".

Change Notice 6 to FIPS PUB 10-4 was published on 2001-01-28. It shows the separation of Escaldes-Engordany from Andorra la Vella.

ISO/DIS 3166-2 (draft international standard), from 1996, showed seven parishes in Andorra, with their codes. The official international standard ISO 3166-2, published on 1998-12-15, mentioned that there were seven parishes, but didn't give names or codes. It said the divisions were "not relevant". ISO 3166-2 Newsletter I-8, published on 2007-04-17, provided ISO parish codes for Andorra that were the same as in the original draft.

Country overview: 

Short name	ANDORRA
ISO code	AD
FIPS code	AN
Language	Catalan (ca)
Time zone	+1 ~
Capital	Andorra la Vella

 

Andorra has been a joint fief of France and Spain throughout the 20th century.

Other names of country: 

1. Catalan: Principat d'Andorra (formal)
2. Dutch: Vorstendom Andorra (formal)
3. English: Principality of Andorra (formal)
4. French: Andorre, Principauté f d'Andorre f (formal)
5. Italian: Andorra
6. Norwegian: Andorra, Fyrstedømmet Andorra (formal)
7. Portuguese: Andorra, Principado m de Andorra f (formal)
8. Russian: Княжество Андорра (formal)
9. Spanish: Principado m de Andorra f (formal)
10. Turkish: Andora, Andora Prensliği (formal)

Origin of name: 

Possibly Navarrian andurrial: land covered with bushes, or Basque ama: ten, iturri: springs

Primary subdivisions: 

Since 1978 Andorra is divided into seven parishes (parròquies; sing.: parròquia).

The local governments of the parishes are styled 'communes' (comuns; sing.: comú).

Parish	HASC	ISO	FIPS	Post	Population	Area(km.²)	Area(mi.²)	Capital
Andorra la Vella	AD.AN	07	AN07	500	24,801	12	5	Andorra
Canillo	AD.CA	02	AN02	100	5,835	121	47	Canillo
Encamp	AD.EN	03	AN03	200	12,863	74	29	Encamp
Escaldes-Engordany	AD.EE	08	AN08	700	15,553	47	18	Les Escaldes
La Massana	AD.MA	04	AN04	400	11,627	61	24	La Massana
Ordino	AD.OR	05	AN05	300	5,451	89	34	Ordino
Sant Julià de Lòria	AD.JL	06	AN06	600	9,920	60	23	Sant Julià de Lòria
7 parishes					85,330	464	179
HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes. ISO: Codes from international standard ISO 3166-2. FIPS: Codes from FIPS PUB 10-4, a U.S. government standard. Post: Parish postal codes. Prefix them with AD for the full code. (This is a new postal code system implemented in 2004.) Population: 2024-01-31 census, compiled from population registers (source [5]). Area: Source [4].

Territorial extent: 

The UN LOCODE page  for Andorra 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.

Origins of names: 

Les Escaldes: Catalan for 'The Baths' in the meaning of 'thermal springs'.

Change history: 

1978-06-14: The former quarter (quart) of Escaldes-Engordany splits as a parish from Andorra la Vella (former FIPS code AN01).

Other names of subdivisions: 

1. Andorra la Vella: Andorra (informal); Andorra-a-Velha (Portuguese); Andorre-la-Vieille (French); Andorra la Vieja (Spanish) [literally, Andorra the old.]
2. Escaldes-Engordany: Escaldes i Engordany, Les Escaldes (variant)

Population history:

District	1963	1971	1975	1980	1989	1999	2009	2012	2024
Andorra la Vella	7,214	13,892	18,304	13,825	19,003	21,189	23,380	22,398	24,081
Canillo	426	436	637	755	1,287	2,706	5,903	4,133	5,835
Encamp	1,096	2,107	2,474	4,116	7,134	10,595	14,263	12,051	12,863
Escaldes-Engordany	[3,176]	[5,830]	[7,372]	9,846	12,287	15,299	16,861	14,282	15,553
La Massana	601	953	1,425	2,155	3,901	6,276	9,773	9,902	11,627
Ordino	381	411	474	713	1,255	2,283	4,187	4,417	5,451
Sant Julià de Lòria	1,638	2,751	3,244	4,050	6,020	7,623	9,715	9,063	9,920
Total	11,356	20,550	26,558	35,460	50,887	65,971	84,082	76,246	85,330

 

All data shown here are from source [2]. The source actually has yearly figures for every year from 1963 to 2012. I selected 1963 because it was the earliest, 1971 because source [3] has the same figures (rounded off) and identified as "1971 census", 1975 and 1989 because those were on the U.S. Census Bureau's list of censuses, and the other dates to fill in the spaces. The U.N. Statistics Division's list of censuses says that the census date for 1989 was 1989-07-12. Population data since 1999 have been compiled from population registers. Data for Escaldes-Engordany before 1978 are probably proleptic, and are shown in square brackets.

Sources: 

1. [1] Andorra address formats, according to the Universal Postal Union (http://www.upu.int/post_code/en/countries/AND.pdf, dead link, retrieved 2004-08-06). A newer version is available at Andorra  (retrieved 2013-03-17).
2. [2] Population by Parish . Departament d´Estadística, Andorra la Vella (retrieved 2013-03-17).
3. [3] Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th Edition, Chicago, 1984.
4. [4] About Andorra . Andorra Turisme SAU (retrieved 2013-03-17).
5. [5] Population by Parish . Departament d´Estadística, Nota de Premsa (retrieved 2024-03-07).