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ISO 3166-2 AU



         


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. 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 BambooWeb, the codes from the country pages link to the pages for the locations they identify.


Australia also uses 4 digit numeric postal (aka zip) codes, such as Sydney NSW 2000.

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Comparison with Postal Abbreviations

Note these are different from the standard Australian postal abbreviations

State/TerritoryISO 3166-2Postal
New South WalesAU-NSNSW
QueenslandAU-QLQLD
South AustraliaAU-SASA
TasmaniaAU-TSTAS
VictoriaAU-VIVIC
Western AustraliaAU-WAWA
Australian Capital TerritoryAU-CTACT
Northern TerritoryAU-NTNT
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Encoding list

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States

AU-NS New South Wales AU-QL Queensland AU-SA South Australia AU-TS Tasmania AU-VI Victoria AU-WA Western Australia
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Territories

AU-CT Australian Capital Territory AU-NT Northern Territory
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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
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See also






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