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:
Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.
ISO 639-1 codes are used to represent subdivision names in the following administrative languages:
  • : French
  • : Dutch
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Regions

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Provinces

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Changes

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.
NewsletterDate issuedDescription 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 changeShort description of change
2011-12-13First level prefix addition, change of administrative languages and list source update.
2015-11-27Addition of the parent subdivisions