ISO 3166-2:ES

Main article: ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2:ES is the entry for Spain 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 Spain, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:

• 17 autonomous communities and 2 autonomous cities in North Africa
• 50 provinces

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is ES, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Spain. The second part is one or two letters. For the provinces, the letters were originally used in vehicle registration plates. The codes for the following provinces are based on the names of their capital cities rather than their own names:

• Álava/Araba (ES-VI): Vitoria
• Asturias (ES-O): Oviedo
• Balears (ES-PM): Palma
• Cantabria (ES-S): Santander
• Guipúzcoa/Gipuzkoa (ES-SS): San Sebastián
• La Rioja (ES-LO): Logroño
• Las Palmas (ES-GC): Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Vizcaya/Bizkaia (ES-BI): Bilbao

Current codes

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

ISO 639-1 codes are used to represent subdivision names in the following administrative languages:

• (es): Spanish
• (eu): Basque
• (ca): Catalan
• (gl): Galician

Except where noted, the names given are in Spanish (Castilian). In autonomous communities and provinces where any of the regional languages is the sole official language, the Spanish name is given in square brackets for information. In subdivisions where a regional language is official alongside Spanish, both names are listed vertically.

Autonomous communities; autonomous cities in North Africa

Code	Subdivision name	Subdivision category
ES-AN	Andalucía	autonomous community
ES-AR	Aragón	autonomous community
ES-AS	Asturias, Principado de	autonomous community
ES-CN	Canarias	autonomous community
ES-CB	Cantabria	autonomous community
ES-CM	Castilla-La Mancha	autonomous community
ES-CL	Castilla y León	autonomous community
ES-CT	Catalunya (ca) [Cataluña]	autonomous community
ES-EX	Extremadura	autonomous community
ES-GA	Galicia (gl) [Galicia]	autonomous community
ES-IB	Illes Balears (ca) [Islas Baleares]	autonomous community
ES-RI	La Rioja	autonomous community
ES-MD	Madrid, Comunidad de	autonomous community
ES-MC	Murcia, Región de	autonomous community
ES-NC	Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Nafarroako Foru Komunitatea (eu)	autonomous community
ES-PV	País Vasco Euskal Herria (eu)	autonomous community
ES-VC	Valenciana, Comunidad Valenciana, Comunitat (ca)	autonomous community
ES-CE	Ceuta	autonomous city in North Africa
ES-ML	Melilla	autonomous city in North Africa

Provinces

Code	Subdivision name (es)	In autonomous community
ES-C	A Coruña (gl) [La Coruña]	GA
ES-VI	Álava Araba (eu)	PV
ES-AB	Albacete	CM
ES-A	Alicante Alacant (ca)	VC
ES-AL	Almería	AN
ES-O	Asturias	AS
ES-AV	Ávila	CL
ES-BA	Badajoz	EX
ES-PM	Balears (ca) [Baleares]	IB
ES-B	Barcelona [Barcelona]	CT
ES-BU	Burgos	CL
ES-CC	Cáceres	EX
ES-CA	Cádiz	AN
ES-S	Cantabria	CB
ES-CS	Castellón Castelló (ca)	VC
ES-CR	Ciudad Real	CM
ES-CO	Córdoba	AN
ES-CU	Cuenca	CM
ES-GI	Girona (ca) [Gerona]	CT
ES-GR	Granada	AN
ES-GU	Guadalajara	CM
ES-SS	Gipuzkoa (eu)	PV
ES-H	Huelva	AN
ES-HU	Huesca	AR
ES-J	Jaén	AN
ES-LO	La Rioja	RI
ES-GC	Las Palmas	CN
ES-LE	León	CL
ES-L	Lleida (ca) [Lérida]	CT
ES-LU	Lugo (gl) [Lugo]	GA
ES-M	Madrid	MD
ES-MA	Málaga	AN
ES-MU	Murcia	MC
ES-NA	Navarra Nafarroa (eu)	NC
ES-OR	Ourense (gl) [Orense]	GA
ES-P	Palencia	CL
ES-PO	Pontevedra (gl) [Pontevedra]	GA
ES-SA	Salamanca	CL
ES-TF	Santa Cruz de Tenerife	CN
ES-SG	Segovia	CL
ES-SE	Sevilla	AN
ES-SO	Soria	CL
ES-T	Tarragona (ca) [Tarragona]	CT
ES-TE	Teruel	AR
ES-TO	Toledo	CM
ES-V	Valencia València (ca)	VC
ES-VA	Valladolid	CL
ES-BI	Bizkaia (eu)	PV
ES-ZA	Zamora	CL
ES-Z	Zaragoza	AR

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:

Newsletter	Date issued	Description of change in newsletter	Code/Subdivision change
Newsletter I-1	2000-06-21	Code elements for autonomous communities withdrawn to correct the erroneous duplicate coding of the whole Spanish territory (see 4.1.1 of ISO 3166-2). Introduction of a third column stating a regional level of subdivision which is not coded (see 4.4. c) of ISO 3166-2). Introduction of 2 alternative name forms. Correction of 1 spelling error
Newsletter I-2	2002-05-21	Spelling correction and update in header information. Four corrections in spellings of subdivisions	Codes: Illes Balears: ES-PM → ES-IB (to correct duplicate use) ES-GE Gerona → ES-GI Girona
Newsletter I-4	2002-12-10	Error correction: Regional subdivision indicator corrected in ES-PM
Newsletter II-1	2010-02-03 (corrected 2010-02-19)	Addition of the country code prefix as the first code element, reallocation of 3166-2 alpha-2 codes to avoid duplication, update of the administrative structure, addition of names in administrative languages	Codes: (to correct duplicate use) Asturias, Principado de: ES-O → ES-AS Cantabria (autonomous community): ES-S → ES-CB La Rioja: (autonomous community): ES-LO → ES-RI Madrid, Comunidad de: ES-M → ES-MD Murcia, Región de: ES-MU → ES-MC Navarra, Comunidad Foral de: ES-NA → ES-NC

Special territories

The following two areas not covered by European Union Customs arrangements are also exceptionally reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes on the request of the World Customs Organization:

• EA Ceuta, Melilla
• IC Canary Islands

However, these codes do not correspond in any way to the ISO 3166-2 codes of the territories.

See also

• Subdivisions of Spain
• FIPS region codes of Spain
• NUTS codes of Spain
• Neighbouring countries: AD, FR, GI, MA, PT.

External links

• ISO Online Browsing Platform: ES
• Provinces of Spain, Statoids.com