ISO 3166-2:BE
ISO 3166-2:BE is the entry for Belgium in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization, which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
Currently for Belgium, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Belgium. The second part is three letters. For the provinces, the first letter indicates the region where the province is in:
- V: Flemish [Region |Flemish Region]
- W: Wallonia
Current codes
ISO 639-1 codes are used to represent subdivision names in the following administrative languages:
- : French
- : Dutch
Regions
; NotesProvinces
; NotesChanges
The following changes to the entry have been announced in newsletters by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.| Newsletter | Date issued | Description of change in newsletter |
| First level prefix addition, change of administrative languages and list source update. |
The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:
| Effective date of change | Short description of change |
| 2011-12-13 | First level prefix addition, change of administrative languages and list source update. |
| 2015-11-27 | Addition of the parent subdivisions |