Entry for Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba in ISO 3166-2
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
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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Changes
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
External links
ISO 3166 – Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions
ISO 3166-1 country codes ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes
ISO 3166-3 codes for former names of countries
a Changed from TP
b Changed from YU