ISO 3166-2:NL

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ISO 3166-2:NL is the entry for the Kingdom of the Netherlands 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 the kingdom, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for three countries, 12 provinces and three special municipalities.

The kingdom consists of the three countries and the country of the Netherlands which is composed of the provinces and the special municipalities.

Each code consists of two parts separated by a hyphen. The first part is NL, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the Netherlands. The second part either of the following:

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:

Provinces

CodeSubdivision Name (nl)Subdivision Name (en) [note 1]
NL-DRFlag of Drenthe.svg  Drenthe Drenthe
NL-FLFlag of Flevoland.svg  Flevoland Flevoland
NL-FRFrisian flag.svg  Fryslân (fy)Friesland
NL-GEFlag of Gelderland.svg  Gelderland Gelderland
NL-GRFlag of Groningen.svg  Groningen Groningen
NL-LIFlag of Limburg.svg  Limburg Limburg
NL-NBNorth Brabant-Flag.svg  Noord-Brabant North Brabant
NL-NHFlag of North Holland.svg  Noord-Holland North Holland
NL-OVFlag of Overijssel.svg  Overijssel Overijssel
NL-UTUtrecht (province)-Flag.svg  Utrecht Utrecht
NL-ZEFlag of Zeeland.svg  Zeeland Zeeland
NL-ZHFlag of Zuid-Holland.svg  Zuid-Holland South Holland
Notes
  1. ↑ For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.

Countries and special municipalities

Besides being included as subdivisions of the Netherlands in ISO 3166-2, the countries and special municipalities are also officially assigned their own country codes in ISO 3166-1.

CodeSubdivision name (nl)Subdivision categoryISO 3166-1 alpha-2Alternative
ISO 3166-2 [1]
NL-AWFlag of Aruba.svg  Aruba country AW
NL-CWFlag of Curacao.svg  Curaçao country CW
NL-SXFlag of Sint Maarten.svg  Sint Maarten country SX
NL-BQ1Flag of Bonaire.svg  Bonaire special municipality BQ BQ-BO
NL-BQ2Flag of Saba.svg  Saba special municipality BQ BQ-SA
NL-BQ3Flag of Sint Eustatius.svg  Sint Eustatius special municipality BQ BQ-SE

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 II-3 2011-12-13
(corrected
2011-12-15)		Update resulting from the addition of the administrative readjustment and source list update.Subdivisions added:
3 countries
3 special municipalities

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ISO Online Browsing Platform: BQ". International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Archived from the original on 2016-06-17. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
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