ISO 3166-2:BE
ISO 3166-2 codes for Belgium cover 5 Provinces in Flanders and 5 provinces in Wallonia. The first part is the ISO 3166-1 code BE for Belgium, the second part is three-digit-alphabetic, where the first letter marks the region. Brussels is a separate region, therefore, it has a seperate code. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such. 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.
Regions
- BE-BRU Brussels Région de Bruxelles-Capitale (fr), Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (nl)
- BE-VLG Flanders (nl Vlaams Gewest)
- BE-WAL Wallonia (fr Région wallone)
Coding list
Provinces
Decoding list
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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