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Entry for Venezuela in ISO 3166-2
ISO 3166-2:VE
is the entry for
Venezuela
in
ISO 3166-2
, part of the
ISO 3166
standard
published by the
International Organization for Standardization
(ISO), which defines
codes
for the names of the principal
subdivisions
(e.g.,
provinces
or
states
) of all
countries
coded in
ISO 3166-1
.
Currently for Venezuela, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for
1 capital district, 1 federal dependency, and 23 states
. The
Venezuelan Capital District
contains the central part of the capital of the country
Caracas
and has special status equal to the states.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is
VE
, the
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
code of Venezuela. The second part is a letter:
- A: federal district
- B–V (except Q): states as of late 1980s
- W: federal dependency
- X: state created in 1998
- Y–Z: former federal territories given state status in early 1990s
Current codes
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Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).
Click on the button in the header to sort each column.
- Notes
- ^
For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
Changes
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The following changes to the entry have been announced by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998:
Newsletter
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Date issued
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Description of change in newsletter
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Code/Subdivision change
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Newsletter I-4
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2002-12-10
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Addition of one state. Subdivision categories in header re-sorted
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Subdivisions added:
VE-X
Vargas
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Newsletter I-5
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2003-09-05
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Change of subdivision category of two Federal territories to States. List source updated
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Online Browsing Platform (OBP)
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2009-03-03
|
Change of short name
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Newsletter II-1
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2010-02-03
(corrected
2010-02-19
)
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Change of short form country name in accordance with
ISO 3166-1 NL VI-5 (2009-03-03)
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Online Browsing Platform (OBP)
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2010-02-19
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Change of short form country name in accordance with ISO 3166-1 NL VI-5 (2009-03-03)
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2014-12-18
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Alignment of the English and French short names upper and lower case with UNTERM; update of the remarks in French
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2015-11-27
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Change of spelling of category name in fra and spa
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2020-11-24
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Change of subdivision name of VE-X; Update List Source; Correction of the Code Source
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Subdivisions renamed:
VE-X
Vargas → La Guaira
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See also
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External links
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ISO 3166
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ISO 3166-1
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country subdivision codes
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ISO 3166-3
codes for former names of countries
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- a
Changed from TP
- b
Changed from YU
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