ISO 3166-2:BE

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ISO 3166-2:BE is the entry for Belgium 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 Belgium, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is BE, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Belgium. The second part is three letters. For the provinces, the first letter indicates the region where the province is in:

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 following administrative languages:

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Regions

CodeSubdivision name (nl)Subdivision name (fr)Subdivision name
(en) [note 1]
BE-BRUFlag of the Brussels-Capital Region.svg  Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Bruxelles-Capitale, Région deBrussels
BE-VLGFlag of Flanders.svg  Vlaams Gewest flamande, Région [note 2] Flanders
BE-WALFlag of Wallonia.svg  Waals Gewest [note 3] wallonne, RégionWalloonia
Notes
  1. ↑ For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
  2. ↑ For reference only, French name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
  3. ↑ For reference only, Dutch name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.

Provinces

CodeSubdivision nameSubdivision name (en) [note 1] Region
BE-VANFlag of Antwerp.svg  Antwerpen (nl)Antwerp VLG
BE-WBRDrapeau Province BE Brabant Wallon.svg  Brabant wallon (fr)Walloon Brabant WAL
BE-WHTFlag of Hainaut.svg  Hainaut (fr)Hainaut WAL
BE-WLGFlag of the Province of Liege.svg  Liège (fr)Liège WAL
BE-VLIFlag of Limburg (Belgium).svg  Limburg (nl)Limburg VLG
BE-WLX Official flag of the Province of Luxembourg.svg Luxembourg (fr)Luxembourg WAL
BE-WNAFlag of Namur Province.svg  Namur (fr)Namur WAL
BE-VOVFlag of Oost-Vlaanderen.svg  Oost-Vlaanderen (nl)East Flanders VLG
BE-VBRFlemish Brabant Flag.png  Vlaams-Brabant (nl)Flemish Brabant VLG
BE-VWVFlag of West Flanders.svg  West-Vlaanderen (nl)West Flanders VLG
Notes
  1. ↑ For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.

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. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.

NewsletterDate issuedDescription of change in newsletter
Newsletter II-3 2011-12-13
(corrected
2011-12-15)		First level prefix addition, change of administrative languages and list source update.

The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:

Effective date of changeShort description of change (en)
2011-12-13First level prefix addition, change of administrative languages and list source update.
2015-11-27Addition of the parent subdivisions

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