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{{Short description|Entry for Australia in ISO 3166-2}}
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'''ISO 3166-2:AU''' is the entry for [[Australia]] 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., provinces or [[state (administrative division)|state]]s) of all [[country|countries]] coded in [[ISO 3166-1]].

Currently for Australia, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for [[states and territories of Australia|six states and two territories]]. Lesser territories that are under the administration of the commonwealth government, such as the [[Jervis Bay Territory]], the [[Ashmore and Cartier Islands]], and the [[Coral Sea Islands]], are not listed.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is {{mono|AU}}, the [[ISO 3166-1 alpha-2]] code of Australia. The second part is two or three letters, which is the conventional abbreviation of the state or territory (defined in Australian Standard AS {{not a typo|4212-1994}}).

==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 ([[English language|en]])
! Subdivision category
|-
| {{mono|AU-NSW}}
| {{flag|New South Wales}}
| state
|-
| {{mono|AU-QLD}}
| {{flag|Queensland}}
| state
|-
| {{mono|AU-SA}}
| {{flag|South Australia}}
| state
|-
| {{mono|AU-TAS}}
| {{flag|Tasmania}}
| state
|-
| {{mono|AU-VIC}}
| {{flag|Victoria}}
| state
|-
| {{mono|AU-WA}}
| {{flag|Western Australia}}
| state
|-
| {{mono|AU-ACT}}
| {{flag|Australian Capital Territory}}
| territory
|-
| {{mono|AU-NT}}
| {{flag|Northern Territory}}
| territory
|}

The external territories of [[Christmas Island]], the [[Cocos (Keeling) Islands]] and [[Norfolk Island]] have their own [[ISO 3166-1]] codes and are not included in Australia's entry in ISO 3166-2. There are no ISO 3166-2 codes for:
* [[Ashmore and Cartier Islands]]
* [[Australian Antarctic Territory]] (part of [[Antarctica]] with country code AQ)
* [[Coral Sea Islands]]
* [[Jervis Bay Territory]]

==Changes==
The following changes to the entry have been announced in newsletters by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO {{not a typo|3166-2}} in 1998. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Newsletter
! Date issued
! Description of change in newsletter
! Code/Subdivision change
|-
| id="I-6" | [https://web.archive.org/web/20081218103224/http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_3166-2_newsletter_i-6_en.pdf {{nowrap|Newsletter I-6}}]
| {{nowrap|2004-03-08}}
| Change of subdivision code in accordance with Australian Standard AS 4212-1994
| style=white-space:nowrap | '''Codes:'''<br /> [[New South Wales]]: {{mono|AU-NS}} → {{mono|AU-NSW}}<br /> [[Queensland]]: {{mono|AU-QL}} → {{mono|AU-QLD}}<br /> [[Tasmania]]: {{mono|AU-TS}} → {{mono|AU-TAS}}<br /> [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]: {{mono|AU-VI}} → {{mono|AU-VIC}}<br /> [[Australian Capital Territory]]: {{mono|AU-CT}} → {{mono|AU-ACT}}
|}

The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Effective date of change
! Short description of change (en)
|-
| 2015-11-27
| Update List Source
|-
| 2016-11-15
| Update List Source; update Code Source
|}

==External territories==
Four of the external territories of Australia are officially assigned their own country codes in ISO 3166-1, with the following alpha-2 codes:
* {{mono|CC}} [[Cocos (Keeling) Islands]]
* {{mono|CX}} [[Christmas Island]]
* {{mono|HM}} [[Heard Island and McDonald Islands]]
* {{mono|NF}} [[Norfolk Island]]

Under the definitions in ISO 3166-1, the [[Ashmore and Cartier Islands]] and the [[Coral Sea Islands]] are covered by Australia, and the [[Australian Antarctic Territory]] is covered by [[Antarctica]], with alpha-2 code {{mono|AQ}}.

==See also==
* [[Subdivisions of Australia]]
* [[List of FIPS region codes (A-C)#AS: Australia|FIPS region codes of Australia]]

==External links==
* [https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:AU ISO Online Browsing Platform: AU]
* [http://www.statoids.com/uau.html States of Australia], Statoids.com
* [https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:AU ISO page for Australia]

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