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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 3 countries, 12 provinces and 3 special municipalities.

The kingdom consists of the 3 countries + 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

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]
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]
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
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. 

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