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:

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:

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

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