Afghanistan: Daikondi province split from Oruzgan.
Finland: According to ISO, Åland is
now considered a separate country. I've added it to the Country Codes table.
Russia: Perm' region and Komi-Permyak autonomous province will merge.
ISO has issued a new update to the standard for primary subdivisions, with changes to Afghanistan,
Albania, China, Colombia, Indonesia,
Morocco, North Korea, South Africa, and Tunisia. The
change for North Korea involved only metadata, with no effect on anything reported on this site.