ISO 3166-2:BR

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ISO 3166-2:BR is the entry for Brazil 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.

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Currently for Brazil, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 26 states and 1 federal district. The Federal District has a special status similar to the states.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is BR, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Brazil. The second part is two letters, widely used in Brazil as abbreviations of the states and federal district.

Current codes

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

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CodeSubdivision name (pt)Subdivision category
BR-ACBandeira do Acre.svg  Acre state
BR-ALBandeira de Alagoas.svg  Alagoas state
BR-APBandeira do Amapa.svg  Amapá state
BR-AMBandeira do Amazonas.svg  Amazonas state
BR-BABandeira da Bahia.svg  Bahia state
BR-CEBandeira do Ceara.svg  Ceará state
BR-DFBandeira do Distrito Federal (Brasil).svg  Distrito Federal federal district
BR-ESBandeira do Espirito Santo.svg  Espírito Santo state
BR-GOFlag of Goias.svg  Goiás state
BR-MABandeira do Maranhao.svg  Maranhão state
BR-MTBandeira de Mato Grosso.svg  Mato Grosso state
BR-MSBandeira de Mato Grosso do Sul.svg  Mato Grosso do Sul state
BR-MGBandeira de Minas Gerais.svg  Minas Gerais state
BR-PABandeira do Para.svg  Pará state
BR-PBBandeira da Paraiba.svg  Paraíba state
BR-PRBandeira do Parana.svg  Paraná state
BR-PEBandeira de Pernambuco.svg  Pernambuco state
BR-PIBandeira do Piaui.svg  Piauí state
BR-RJBandeira do estado do Rio de Janeiro.svg  Rio de Janeiro state
BR-RNBandeira do Rio Grande do Norte.svg  Rio Grande do Norte state
BR-RSBandeira do Rio Grande do Sul.svg  Rio Grande do Sul state
BR-ROBandeira de Rondonia.svg  Rondônia state
BR-RRBandeira de Roraima.svg  Roraima state
BR-SCBandeira de Santa Catarina.svg  Santa Catarina state
BR-SPBandeira do estado de Sao Paulo.svg  São Paulo state
BR-SEBandeira de Sergipe.svg  Sergipe state
BR-TOBandeira do Tocantins.svg  Tocantins state

Previous codes

The following codes were used for previous states and territories: [1] [2]

Hierarchical numeric representation

IBGE conventions for numerical representation of each current federation unit, where the first digit is the region and the second digit its element:

RegionFederation units
Norte
  prefix 1
 RO AC AM RR PA AP TO
 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Nordeste
  prefix 2
 MA PI CE RN PB PE AL SE BA 
 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
Sudeste
  prefix 3
 MG ES RJ SP
 31 32 33 35
Sul
  prefix 4
 PR SC RS
 41 42 43
Centro-Oeste
  prefix 5
 MS MT GO DF
 50 51 52 53

This is not part of the ISO standard but there is a direct mapping between ISO codes and IBGE numbers. IBGE is the authority for the ISO codes and defined both codes and numbers.

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