ISO 3166-2:AU is the entry 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 of Australia (whose ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code is AU).

Currently 6 states and 2 territories are assigned codes.^{[note 1]} Each code starts with AU-, followed by two or three letters, which is the conventional abbreviation of the state or territory (defined in Australian Standard AS 4212-1994).

[edit] Current codes

Codes and subdivision names are listed as in the official standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA). Click on the button in the header to sort each column.

Code	Subdivision name	Subdivision category
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

Notes

1. ^ Lesser territories that are under the administration of the federal government, such as the Jervis Bay Territory, the Ashmore and Cartier Islands, and the Coral Sea Islands, are not assigned codes.

[edit] Changes

The following changes to the entry have been made and announced in newsletters by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998:

Changes in Newsletter I-6

Previously the second part of each code consisted of two letters (red colour indicates change of code):

Before	After	Subdivision name
AU-NS	AU-NSW	New South Wales
AU-QL	AU-QLD	Queensland
AU-SA	AU-SA	South Australia
AU-TS	AU-TAS	Tasmania
AU-VI	AU-VIC	Victoria
AU-WA	AU-WA	Western Australia
AU-CT	AU-ACT	Australian Capital Territory
AU-NT	AU-NT	Northern Territory

[edit] External territories

Four of the external territories of Australia are officially assigned their own country codes in ISO 3166-1:

Alpha-2	Territory name
CC	Cocos (Keeling) Islands
CX	Christmas Island
HM	Heard Island and McDonald Islands
NF	Norfolk Island

As for the other external territories, the ISO 3166/MA considers the Ashmore and Cartier Islands and the Coral Sea Islands covered by Australia, and the Australian Antarctic Territory covered by Antarctica (alpha-2 code AQ).

[edit] See also

• Subdivisions of Australia
• FIPS region codes of Australia (standard withdrawn in 2008)

[edit] External links

• States of Australia, Statoids.com