ISO 3166-2:VE

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

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 (es) Subdivision name (en) [note 1] Subdivision category
VE-Z Amazonas Amazonia state
VE-B  Anzoátegui Anzoategui state
VE-C  Apure Apure state
VE-D  Aragua Aragua state
VE-E Barinas Barinas state
VE-F  Bolívar Bolivar state
VE-G  Carabobo Carabobo state
VE-H Cojedes Cojedes state
VE-Y  Delta Amacuro Amacuro Delta state
VE-W  Dependencias Federales Federal Dependencies federal dependency
VE-A  Distrito Capital Caracas capital district
VE-I  Falcón Falcon state
VE-J  Guárico Guarico state
VE-X La Guaira La Guaira state
VE-K Lara Lara state
VE-L  Mérida Merida state
VE-M  Miranda Miranda state
VE-N  Monagas Monagas state
VE-O  Nueva Esparta New Sparta state
VE-P Portuguesa Portuguesa state
VE-R Sucre Sucre state
VE-S  Táchira Tachira state
VE-T  Trujillo Trujillo state
VE-U  Yaracuy Yaracuy state
VE-V  Zulia Zulia state
Notes
  1. ^ For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.

Changes

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 Date issued Description of change in newsletter Code/Subdivision change
Newsletter I-4 2002-12-10 Addition of one state. Subdivision categories in header re-sorted Subdivisions added:
VE-X Vargas
Newsletter I-5 2003-09-05 Change of subdivision category of two Federal territories to States. List source updated
Online Browsing Platform (OBP) 2009-03-03 Change of short name
Newsletter II-1 2010-02-03
(corrected
2010-02-19) 		Change of short form country name in accordance with ISO 3166-1 NL VI-5 (2009-03-03)
Online Browsing Platform (OBP) 2010-02-19 Change of short form country name in accordance with ISO 3166-1 NL VI-5 (2009-03-03)
2014-12-18 Alignment of the English and French short names upper and lower case with UNTERM; update of the remarks in French
2015-11-27 Change of spelling of category name in fra and spa
2020-11-24 Change of subdivision name of VE-X; Update List Source; Correction of the Code Source Subdivisions renamed:
VE-X Vargas → La Guaira
2024-02-29 Change of short name upper case: replace the parentheses with a comma

See also