ISO 3166-2:BQ

ISO 3166-2:BQ is the entry for Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba 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 Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, special municipalities of the Netherlands , ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 3 special municipalities .

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is BQ , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba. The second part is two letters.

Each special municipality is also assigned their own ISO 3166-2 code under the entry for the Netherlands . ^[1]

Current codes [ edit ]

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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Code	Subdivision name ( en ), ( nl )	Subdivision name ( pap )	Netherlands ISO 3166-2 code
BQ-BO	Bonaire	Boneiru	NL-BQ1
BQ-SA	Saba	Saba	NL-BQ2
BQ-SE	Sint Eustatius	Sint Eustatius	NL-BQ3

Changes [ edit ]

The following changes to the entry had been announced in newsletters by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998:

Newsletter	Date issued	Description of change in newsletter
Newsletter II-3	2011-12-13 (corrected 2011-12-15 )	Addition of code to align ISO 3166-1 and ISO 3166-2, addition of two divisions and update of the number of divisions.

References [ edit ]

^ "ISO 3166-1 Newsletter VI-8 (2010-12-15):Code elements for Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba, Curacao and Sint Maarten (Dutch part), update of other territories and minor correction" (PDF) . ISO . 15 December 2010 . Retrieved 1 January 2011 .

External links [ edit ]

ISO Online Browsing Platform: BQ
Caribbean Netherlands , Statoids.com

[1] "ISO 3166-1 Newsletter VI-8 (2010-12-15):Code elements for Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba, Curacao and Sint Maarten (Dutch part), update of other territories and minor correction" (PDF) . ISO . 15 December 2010 . Retrieved 1 January 2011 .

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