ISO_3166-2:NL

ISO 3166-2:NL

ISO 3166-2:NL

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:

Provinces

More information Code, Subdivision Name (nl) ...
Notes
  1. [N 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.

More information Code, Subdivision name (nl) ...

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:

More information Newsletter, Date issued ...

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "ISO Online Browsing Platform: BQ". International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
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