Municipalities of San Marino

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Updates: 

"Ershiyi (21) Shiji Shijie Diming Lu", a three-volume world gazetteer, has more recent estimates for the municipality populations.

ISO 3166-2 Newsletter I-8, published on 2007-04-17, has new ISO municipality codes for San Marino. They are shown in the table below. They replace codes from a draft version, ISO/DIS 2166-2, which had not been supported.

Country overview: 

San Marino has been an independent republic for the whole of the 20th century.

Other names of country: 

1. Danish: San Marino
2. Dutch: San Marino, Meest Serene Republiek San Marino (formal)
3. English: Most Serene Republic of San Marino (formal)
4. Finnish: San Marino
5. French: Saint-Marin
6. German: San Marino n
7. Icelandic: San Marínó
8. Italian: San Marino, Serenissima Repubblica f di San Marino (formal)
9. Norwegian: San Marino, Republikken San Marino (formal)
10. Portuguese: San Marino, São Marino, República f Sereníssima de São Marino n (formal)
11. Spanish: San Marino, Serenisima República f de San Marino m (formal)
12. Swedish: San Marino

Origin of name: 

after Saint Marinus (4th cent.), a stonecutter of Rimini who founded San Marino as a refuge from persecution

Primary subdivisions: 

San Marino is divided into nine castelli (sing. castello: municipalities).

Postal code: 

San Marino uses five-digit postal codes from the Italian system. Postal codes for San Marino are 4789x, where x is a digit.

Territorial extent: 

San Marino is entirely surrounded by Italy.

Origins of names: 

1. Acquaviva: = living water (after a spring in a rock face)
2. Chiesanuova: = new church

Other names of subdivisions: 

San Marino: Città (informal)