ISO 3166-2:AU

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ISO 3166-2:AU is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Australia. It describes six states and two territories. The first part is the ISO 3166-1 code AU for Australia, the second part of the code was two-digit-alphabetic. Now it varies.

Code	Region	Type
AU-ACT	Australian Capital Territory	Territory
AU-NSW	New South Wales	State
AU-NT	Northern Territory	Territory
AU-QLD	Queensland	State
AU-SA	South Australia	State
AU-TAS	Tasmania	State
AU-VIC	Victoria	State
AU-WA	Western Australia	State

Four external territories of Australia have ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes:

Code	External Territory
CC	Cocos (Keeling) Islands
CX	Christmas Island
HM	Heard Island and McDonald Islands
NF	Norfolk Island

Comparison with postal abbreviations

Australia also uses 4-digit numeric postcodes, such as Sydney NSW 2000.

Note these were different from the standard Australian postal abbreviations. Now ISO 3166-2:AU is in accordance with Australian Standard AS 4212-1994. Those changes were announced in ISO ISO 3166-2:2004-03-08 Newsletter I-6.

See also

• Ashmore and Cartier Islands, an Australian external territory
• Australian Antarctic Territory, an Australian external territory
• Coral Sea Islands Territory, an Australian external territory
• ISO 3166-2, the reference table for all country region codes.
• ISO 3166-1, the reference table for all country codes, mostly as used for domain names on the Internet.

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