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{{Short description|Entry for the United Arab Emirates in ISO 3166-2}}
'''ISO 3166-2:AE''' is the entry for the [[United Arab Emirates]] in [[ISO 3166-2]], part of the [[ISO 3166]] [[standardization|standard]] published by the [[International Organization for Standardization]] (ISO), which defines [[code]]s for the names of the principal [[country subdivision|subdivision]]s (e.g., [[province]]s or [[state (administrative division)|state]]s) of all [[country|countries]] coded in [[ISO 3166-1]].

Currently for the United Arab Emirates, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for [[emirates of the United Arab Emirates|seven emirates]].

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is {{mono|AE}}, the [[ISO 3166-1 alpha-2]] code of the United Arab Emirates. The second part is two letters.

==Current codes==
Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).

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{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Code
! Subdivision Name ([[Arabic language|ar]])<br />(BGN/PCGN 1956)
! Local variant
! Subdivision name ([[Arabic language|ar]])<br /><ref group="note">For reference only, Arabic name in Arabic script not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.</ref>
|-
| {{mono|AE-AJ}}
| {{sort|&nbsp;Ajman|{{flag|‘Ajmān}}}}
|
| عجمانّ
|-
| {{mono|AE-AZ}}
| {{flag|Abū Z̧aby}}
| Abu Dhabi
| أبو ظبي
|-
| {{mono|AE-FU}}
| {{flag|Al Fujayrah}}
| Fujairah
| الفجيرة
|-
| {{mono|AE-SH}}
| {{flag|Ash Shāriqah}}
| Sharjah
| الشارقةّ
|-
| {{mono|AE-DU}}
| {{flag|Dubayy}}
| Dubai
| دبي
|-
| {{mono|AE-RK}}
| {{flag|Ra’s al Khaymah}}
| Ras Al Khaimah
| رأس الخيمة
|-
| {{mono|AE-UQ}}
| {{flag|Umm al Qaywayn}}
| Umm Al Quwain
| أمّ القيوين
|}

; Notes
<references group="note" />

==Changes==
The following changes to the entry have been announced by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Newsletter
! Date issued
! Description of change in newsletter
|-
| id="I-2" | [https://web.archive.org/web/20081218103157/http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_3166-2_newsletter_i-2_en.pdf {{nowrap|Newsletter I-2}}]
| 2002-05-21
| Spelling correction in AE-RK
|-
| id="I-3" | [https://web.archive.org/web/20081218103236/http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_3166-2_newsletter_i-3_en.pdf {{nowrap|Newsletter I-3}}]
| 2002-08-20
| Error correction: Spelling correction in AE-AZ
|-
| [https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:AE Online Browsing Platform (OBP)]
| 2015-11-27
| Change of spelling of AE-AJ, AE-RK; addition of local variation of AE-FU, AE-RK, AE-UQ; update List Source
|}

==See also==
* [[Subdivisions of the United Arab Emirates]]
* [[List of FIPS region codes (A-C)#AE: United Arab Emirates|FIPS region codes of the United Arab Emirates]]
* Neighbouring countries: [[ISO 3166-2:OM|OM]], [[ISO 3166-2:SA|SA]]

==External links==
* [https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:AE ISO Online Browsing Platform: AE]
* [http://www.statoids.com/uae.html United Arab Emirates], Statoids.com

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