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ISO 3166-2 codes are part of a family of standards intended to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such.
ISO 3166-2 codes for Australia describe 6 States and 2 Territories. The first part is the ISO 3166-1 code AU for Australia, the second part of the code is two-digit-alphabetic.
Anywhere where a short alphanumeric code can serve to clearly indicate a location in a more convenient and less ambiguous form than the full place name. US readers may wish to consider them as the equivalent of worldwide zip or postal codes. Within the Wikipedia, the codes from the country pages link to the pages for the locations they identify.
Australia also uses 4 digit numeric postcodes, such as Sydney NSW 2000.
Comparison with Postal Abbreviations
Note these are different from the standard Australian postal abbreviations
Encoding list
States
AU-NS New South Wales
AU-QL Queensland
AU-SA South Australia
AU-TS Tasmania
AU-VI Victoria
AU-WA Western Australia
Territories
AU-CT Australian Capital Territory
AU-NT Northern Territory
Decoding list
AU-CT Australian Capital Territory
AU-NS New South Wales
AU-NT Northern Territory
AU-QL Queensland
AU-SA South Australia
AU-TS Tasmania
AU-VI Victoria
AU-WA Western Australia
See also
- ISO 3166-2, the reference table for all country region codes.
- ISO 3166-1, the reference table for all country codes, as used for domain names on the internet.
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