ISO 3166-2:CA

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ISO 3166-2:CA is the entry for Canada in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

Contents

Currently for Canada, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 10 provinces and 3 territories.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is CA, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Canada. The second part is two letters, which is the postal abbreviation for the province or territory.

Current codes

Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).

ISO 639-1 codes are used to represent subdivision names in the official languages of Canada: English and French.

Map of Canada with each province or territory labelled with the second part of its ISO 3166-2 code. Canada labelled map.svg
Map of Canada with each province or territory labelled with the second part of its ISO 3166-2 code.
CodeSubdivision name in EnglishSubdivision name in FrenchSubdivision category
CA-AB Alberta AlbertaProvince
CA-BC British Columbia Colombie-BritanniqueProvince
CA-MB Manitoba ManitobaProvince
CA-NB New Brunswick Nouveau-BrunswickProvince
CA-NL Newfoundland and Labrador Terre-Neuve-et-LabradorProvince
CA-NT Northwest Territories Territoires du Nord-OuestTerritory
CA-NS Nova Scotia Nouvelle-ÉcosseProvince
CA-NU Nunavut NunavutTerritory
CA-ON Ontario OntarioProvince
CA-PE Prince Edward Island Île-du-Prince-ÉdouardProvince
CA-QC Quebec QuébecProvince
CA-SK Saskatchewan SaskatchewanProvince
CA-YT Yukon YukonTerritory

Changes

The following changes to the entry have been announced in newsletters by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998:

NewsletterDate issuedDescription of change in newsletterCode/Subdivision change
Newsletter I-1 2000-06-21Addition of 1 new territorySubdivisions added:
CA-NU Nunavut
Newsletter I-2 2002-05-21Correction of name form of CA-NFCodes:
CA-NF Newfoundland → CA-NL Newfoundland and Labrador
Newsletter I-4 2002-12-10Change of code element of Newfoundland and Labrador
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Platform (OBP) 		2014-10-29Change spelling of CA-YT; update List SourceName change:
CA-YT Yukon Territory → Yukon

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