ISO 3166-2:VE

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ISO 3166-2:VE is the entry for Venezuela 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 Venezuela, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for one capital district, one federal dependency and 23 states. The Venezuelan Capital District contains the central part of the capital of the country Caracas and has special status equal to the states.

Each code consists of two parts separated by a hyphen. The first part is VE, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Venezuela. The second part is a letter:

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 (es)Subdivision name (en) [note 1] Subdivision category
VE-AM Flag of Amazonas Indigenous State.svg Amazonas Amazoniastate
VE-ANFlag of Anzoategui State.svg  Anzoátegui Anzoateguistate
VE-APFlag of Apure State.svg  Apure Apurestate
VE-ARFlag of Aragua State.svg  Aragua Araguastate
VE-BA Flag of Barinas State.svg Barinas Barinasstate
VE-BOFlag of Bolivar State.svg  Bolívar Bolivarstate
VE-CAFlag of Carabobo State.svg  Carabobo Carabobostate
VE-CO Flag of Cojedes State.svg Cojedes Cojedesstate
VE-DAFlag of Delta Amacuro State.svg  Delta Amacuro Amacuro Deltastate
VE-DMFederal dependencies of Venezuela's Flag.svg  Dependencias Federales Federal Dependenciesfederal dependency
VE-DC Flag of Caracas (2022).svg Distrito Capital Caracascapital district
VE-ES Esequibo Esequibostate
VE-FAFlag of Falcon State.svg  Falcón Falconstate
VE-GUFlag of Guarico State.svg  Guárico Guaricostate
VE-LG Flag of Vargas State.svg La Guaira La Guairastate
VE-LA Flag of Lara State.svg Lara Larastate
VE-MEFlag of Merida State.svg  Mérida Meridastate
VE-MIFlag of Miranda state.svg  Miranda Mirandastate
VE-MOFlag of Monagas State.svg  Monagas Monagasstate
VE-NEFlag of Nueva Esparta.svg  Nueva Esparta New Spartastate
VE-PO Flag of Portuguesa.svg Portuguesa Portuguesastate
VE-SU Flag of Sucre State.svg Sucre Sucrestate
VE-TAFlag of Tachira.svg  Táchira Tachirastate
VE-TRFlag of Trujillo State.svg  Trujillo Trujillostate
VE-YAFlag of Yaracuy State.svg  Yaracuy Yaracuystate
VE-ZUFlag of Zulia State.svg  Zulia Zuliastate
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 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-4 2002-12-10Addition of one state. Subdivision categories in header re-sortedSubdivisions added:
VE-X Vargas
Newsletter I-5 2003-09-05Change of subdivision category of two Federal territories to States. List source updated
Online Browsing Platform (OBP) 2009-03-03Change of short name
Newsletter II-1 2010-02-03
(corrected
2010-02-19)		Change of short form country name in accordance with ISO 3166-1 NL VI-5 (2009-03-03)
Online Browsing Platform (OBP) 2010-02-19Change of short form country name in accordance with ISO 3166-1 NL VI-5 (2009-03-03)
2014-12-18Alignment of the English and French short names upper and lower case with UNTERM; update of the remarks in French
2015-11-27Change of spelling of category name in fra and spa
2020-11-24Change of subdivision name of VE-X; Update List Source; Correction of the Code SourceSubdivisions renamed:
VE-X Vargas → La Guaira
2024-02-29Change of short name upper case: replace the parentheses with a comma

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