ISO 3166-2:AU
Entry for Australia in ISO 3166–2
ISO 3166-2:AU is the entry for Australia 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 Australia, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 6 states and 2 territories . Lesser territories that are under the administration of the commonwealth government, such as the Jervis Bay Territory , the Ashmore and Cartier Islands , and the Coral Sea Islands , are not listed.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is AU , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Australia. The second part is two or three letters, which is the conventional abbreviation of the state or territory (defined in Australian Standard AS 4212-1994 ).
Current codes
Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).
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Code | Subdivision name ( en ) | Subdivision category |
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AU-NSW | New South Wales | state |
AU-QLD | Queensland | state |
AU-SA | South Australia | state |
AU-TAS | Tasmania | state |
AU-VIC | Victoria | state |
AU-WA | Western Australia | state |
AU-ACT | Australian Capital Territory | territory |
AU-NT | Northern Territory | territory |
The external territories of Christmas Island , the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island have their own ISO 3166-1 codes and are not included in Australia's entry in ISO 3166-2. There are no ISO 3166-2 codes for:
- Ashmore and Cartier Islands
- Australian Antarctic Territory (part of Antarctica with country code AQ)
- Coral Sea Islands
- Jervis Bay Territory
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. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.
Newsletter | Date issued | Description of change in newsletter | Code/Subdivision change |
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Newsletter I-6 | 2004-03-08 | Change of subdivision code in accordance with Australian Standard AS 4212-1994 |
Codes:
New South Wales : AU-NS → AU-NSW Queensland : AU-QL → AU-QLD Tasmania : AU-TS → AU-TAS Victoria : AU-VI → AU-VIC Australian Capital Territory : AU-CT → AU-ACT |
The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:
Effective date of change | Short description of change (en) |
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2015-11-27 | Update List Source |
2016-11-15 | Update List Source; update Code Source |
External territories
Four of the external territories of Australia are officially assigned their own country codes in ISO 3166-1, with the following alpha-2 codes:
- CC Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- CX Christmas Island
- HM Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- NF Norfolk Island
Under the definitions in ISO 3166-1, the Ashmore and Cartier Islands and the Coral Sea Islands are covered by Australia, and the Australian Antarctic Territory is covered by Antarctica , with alpha-2 code AQ .
See also
External links
ISO 3166
– Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions
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ISO 3166-1
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ISO 3166-2
country subdivision codes |
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ISO 3166-3
codes for former names of countries |
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