ISO 3166-2:NL

Main article: ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2:NL is the entry for 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 Netherlands, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 12 provinces, 3 countries and 3 special municipalities, which all—together with the country of the Netherlands—make up the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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): Frisian

Provinces

Code	Subdivision name
NL-DR	Drenthe
NL-FL	Flevoland
NL-FR	Fryslân (fy)
NL-GE	Gelderland
NL-GR	Groningen
NL-LI	Limburg
NL-NB	Noord-Brabant
NL-NH	Noord-Holland
NL-OV	Overijssel
NL-UT	Utrecht
NL-ZE	Zeeland
NL-ZH	Zuid-Holland

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	Subdivision category	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2	alternative ISO 3166-2
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

References

External links

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

ISO 3166 codes for the names of countries and their subdivisions

ISO codes for the names of countries and their (administrative) subdivisions

ISO 3166-1
country codes

ISO 3166-2
country subdivision codes

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ISO 3166-3
codes for former names of countries

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