Commune of Monaco

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Updates: 

Celvin Ruisdael gave me the exact date of the 2000 census.

The word "quartier" can be translated "district" or "neighborhood". Until recently, all sources agreed that the quartiers of Monaco were La Condamine, Monaco-Ville, and Monte-Carlo; since the 1970s, the list has also included Fontvieille, which occupies land reclaimed from the sea from 1964 to 1973. Now I'm finding Web pages that also show quartiers named Moneghetti, Larvotto, Saint Roman, and Ténao (in decreasing order of frequency). This is evidence that the quartiers are merely descriptive names, not administrative divisions. The official website of the Government of Monaco  doesn't show the quartiers as having any administrative function. It has some census reports with the population of the country broken down by the four quartiers, but it has other reports that show a division into ten quartiers.

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: 

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

Primary subdivisions: 

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

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:

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