ISO 3166-2:AU

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ISO 3166-2:AU is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Australia. It describes 6 States and 2 Territories. The first part is the ISO 3166-1 code AU for Australia, the second part of the code was two-digit-alphabetic. Now it varies.

[edit] Comparison with postal abbreviations

Australia also uses 4-digit numeric postcodes, such as Sydney NSW 2000.

Note these were different from the standard Australian postal abbreviations. Now ISO 3166-2:AU is in accordance with Australian Standard AS 4212-1994. Those changes were announced in ISO ISO 3166-2:2004-03-08 Newsletter I-6.

State/Territory ISO 3166-2 (old) Postal & ISO 3166-2 (new)
New South Wales AU-NS NSW
Queensland AU-QL QLD
South Australia AU-SA SA
Tasmania AU-TS TAS
Victoria AU-VI VIC
Western Australia AU-WA WA
Australian Capital Territory AU-CT ACT
Northern Territory AU-NT NT

[edit] Codes

Sorted by Code
AU-ACT Australian Capital Territory
AU-NSW New South Wales
AU-NT Northern Territory
AU-QLD Queensland
AU-SA South Australia
AU-TAS Tasmania
AU-VIC Victoria
AU-WA Western Australia
Sorted by Name
States
New South Wales AU-NSW
Queensland AU-QLD
South Australia AU-SA
Tasmania AU-TAS
Victoria AU-VIC
Western Australia AU-WA
Territories
Australian Capital Territory AU-ACT
Northern Territory AU-NT

[edit] See also

  • ISO 3166-2, the reference table for all country region codes.
  • ISO 3166-1, the reference table for all country codes, mostly as used for domain names on the Internet.
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