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Later, PQ evolved from P.Q. as the first two-letter non-punctuated abbreviation. Later still, QC evolved as the second two-letter non-punctuated abbreviation, making Quebec's abbreviation consistent with other provinces insofar as using letters solely from the name of the province, but not the word "province", as PQ did. [citation needed]
Currently for Canada, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 10 provinces and 3 territories. Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is CA, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Canada. The second part is two letters, which is the postal abbreviation for the province or territory.
The purpose of ISO 3166-2 is to establish an international standard of short and unique alphanumeric codes to represent the relevant administrative divisions and dependent territories of all countries in a more convenient and less ambiguous form than their full names. Each complete ISO 3166-2 code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen: [1]
First two numbers: Republic and Province, Second two numbers: District, last two numbers: Post Office. [27] [28] Tanzania: TZ: NNNNN Thailand: 25 February 1982 TH: NNNNN The first two specify the province, numbers as in ISO 3166-2:TH, the third and fourth digits specify a district (amphoe) Togo: TG: no codes Tokelau: TK: no codes Tonga: TO: no ...
Like British, Irish, and Dutch postcodes, Canada's postal codes are alphanumeric. They are in the format A1A 1A1, where A is a letter and 1 is a digit, with a space separating the third and fourth characters. As of October 2019, there were 876,445 postal codes, [2] using forward sortation areas (FSAs), from A0A in Newfoundland to Y1A in Yukon.
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 – two-letter country codes which are also used to create the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes and the Internet country code top-level domains. ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 – three-letter country codes which may allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.
This template converts between the full names and short form names of Canadian provinces. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status province 1 Full name or short form name of province. Line required type of output 2 By default, template will output the two-letter code for the province. Set this parameter to 'name' to output the full name. Set this parameter to ...
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard [1] published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest.