NL

Short description: Entry for the Netherlands in ISO 3166-2

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.

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:

* two letters: provinces or countries
* two letters and a digit: special municipalities

## Contents

* 1 Current codes
* 1.1 Provinces
* 1.2 Countries and special municipalities
* 2 Changes
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## 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:

* (nl): Dutch
* (fy): West Frisian

### Provinces

Code  | Subdivision Name (nl)  | Subdivision Name (en)[note 1]

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NL-DR | Template:Country data Drenthe | Drenthe
NL-FL | Template:Country data Flevoland | Flevoland
NL-FR | Template:Country data Friesland (fy)  | Friesland
NL-GE | Template:Country data Gelderland | Gelderland
NL-GR | Template:Country data Groningen | Groningen
NL-LI | Template:Country data Limburg (Netherlands) | Limburg
NL-NB | Template:Country data Noord-Brabant | North Brabant
NL-NH | Template:Country data Noord-Holland | North Holland
NL-OV | Template:Country data Overijssel | Overijssel
NL-UT | Template:Country data Utrecht | Utrecht
NL-ZE | Template:Country data Zeeland | Zeeland
NL-ZH | Template:Country data 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.

Code  | Subdivision name (nl)  | Subdivision category  | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2  | Alternative
ISO 3166-2[1]

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NL-AW |  Aruba  | country  | AW |
NL-CW |  Curaçao  | country  | CW |
NL-SX |  Sint Maarten  | country  | SX |
NL-BQ1 |  Bonaire  | special municipality  | BQ | BQ-BO
NL-BQ2 |  Saba  | special municipality  | BQ | BQ-SA
NL-BQ3 |  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:

Newsletter  | Date issued  | Description of change in newsletter  | Code/Subdivision change

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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

* Subdivisions of the Netherlands
* FIPS region codes of the Netherlands
* NUTS codes of the Netherlands
* Neighbouring countries: BE, DE, FR (MF, via SX)

## References

1. ↑ "ISO Online Browsing Platform: BQ". International Organization for Standardization (ISO). https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:BQ.

## External links

* ISO Online Browsing Platform: NL
* Provinces of Netherlands, Statoids.com

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ISO 3166 – Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions

List of ISO 3166 country codes

ISO 3166-1
country codes|

* alpha-2
* alpha-3
* numeric

ISO 3166-2
country subdivision codes|

* AD
* AE
* AF
* AG
* AI
* AL
* AM
* AO
* AQ
* AR
* AS
* AT
* AU
* AW
* AX
* AZ
* BA
* BB
* BD
* BE
* BF
* BG
* BH
* BI
* BJ
* BL
* BM
* BN
* BO
* BQ
* BR
* BS
* BT
* BV
* BW
* BY
* BZ
* CA
* CC
* CD
* CF
* CG
* CH
* CI
* CK
* CL
* CM
* CN
* CO
* CR
* CU
* CV
* CW
* CX
* CY
* CZ
* DE
* DJ
* DK
* DM
* DO
* DZ
* EC
* EE
* EG
* EH
* ER
* ES
* ET
* FI
* FJ
* FK
* FM
* FO
* FR
* GA
* GB
* GD
* GE
* GF
* GG
* GH
* GI
* GL
* GM
* GN
* GP
* GQ
* GR
* GS
* GT
* GU
* GW
* GY
* HK
* HM
* HN
* HR
* HT
* HU
* ID
* IE
* IL
* IM
* IN
* IO
* IQ
* IR
* IS
* IT
* JE
* JM
* JO
* JP
* KE
* KG
* KH
* KI
* KM
* KN
* KP
* KR
* KW
* KY
* KZ
* LA
* LB
* LC
* LI
* LK
* LR
* LS
* LT
* LU
* LV
* LY
* MA
* MC
* MD
* ME
* MF
* MG
* MH
* MK
* ML
* MM
* MN
* MO
* MP
* MQ
* MR
* MS
* MT
* MU
* MV
* MW
* MX
* MY
* MZ
* NA
* NC
* NE
* NF
* NG
* NI
* NL
* NO
* NP
* NR
* NU
* NZ
* OM
* PA
* PE
* PF
* PG
* PH
* PK
* PL
* PM
* PN
* PR
* PS
* PT
* PW
* PY
* QA
* RE
* RO
* RS
* RU
* RW
* SA
* SB
* SC
* SD
* SE
* SG
* SH
* SI
* SJ
* SK
* SL
* SM
* SN
* SO
* SR
* SS
* ST
* SV
* SX
* SY
* SZ
* TC
* TD
* TF
* TG
* TH
* TJ
* TK
* TLa
* TM
* TN
* TO
* TR
* TT
* TV
* TW
* TZ
* UA
* UG
* UM
* US
* UY
* UZ
* VA
* VC
* VE
* VG
* VI
* VN
* VU
* WF
* WS
* YE
* YT
* ZA
* ZM
* ZW

Deleted|

* AN
* CSb

ISO 3166-3
codes for former names of countries|

* List

* a Changed from TP
* b Changed from YU

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