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Updates: 

ISO 3166-2 Newsletter II-3 is dated 2011-12-15. It assigns codes to seventeen quarters of Monaco.

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. I am disinclined to report subdivisions for a country whose total area is 2.02 km.².

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. Russian: Княжество Монако (formal)
12. Spanish: Mónaco, Principado m de Mónaco m (formal)
13. Swedish: Monaco
14. Turkish: Monako Prensliği (formal)

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 source [1], the commune of Monaco is subdivided into four quartiers (districts, quarters, 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.

The new ISO standard (2011-12) lists the following quarters. It attributes the list to the Direction des Communications Électroniques, Principauté de Monaco.

Quarter	ISO
Fontvieille	FO
Jardin Exotique	JE
La Colle	CL
La Condamine	CO
La Gare	GA
Larvotto	LA
La Source	SO
Malbousquet	MA
Monaco-Ville	MO
Moneghetti	MG
Monte-Carlo	MC
Moulins	MU
Port-Hercule	PH
Saint-Roman	SR
Sainte-Dévote	SD
Spélugues	SP
Vallon de la Rousse	VR

 

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

Sources: 

1. [1] 2008 census report  (retrieved 2009-09-29 from http://www.gouv.mc/devwww/wwwnew.nsf/1909$/dfb8c2ae4774e8d9c12575ac0046c0e5fr?OpenDocument&Count=10000&InfoChap=Dossiers%20&InfoSujet=Recensement%202008&6Fr, now a dead link).
2. [2] Government of Monaco  website (retrieved 2005-01-28).