• Science • People
Non User
 • Locations • Timeline
Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Home > ISO 3166-2:AU

 Contents
1 Comparison with Postal Abbreviations
2 Encoding list
2.1 States
2.2 Territories
3 Decoding list
4 See also
ISO 3166-2 codes are part of a family of standards intended to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such. ISO 3166-2 codes for Australia describe 6 States and 2 Territories. The first part is the ISO 3166-1 code AU for Australia, the second part of the code is two-digit-alphabetic.

Anywhere where a short alphanumeric code can serve to clearly indicate a location in a more convenient and less ambiguous form than the full place name. US readers may wish to consider them as the equivalent of worldwide zip or postal codes. Within the Wikipedia, the codes from the country pages link to the pages for the locations they identify.


Australia also uses 4 digit numeric postal (aka zip) codes, such as Sydney NSW 2000.

1 Comparison with Postal Abbreviations

Note these are different from the standard Australian postal abbreviations

State/TerritoryISO 3166-2Postal
New South WalesAU-NSNSW
QueenslandAU-QLQLD
South AustraliaAU-SASA
TasmaniaAU-TSTAS
VictoriaAU-VIVIC
Western AustraliaAU-WAWA
Australian Capital TerritoryAU-CTACT
Northern TerritoryAU-NTNT

2 Encoding list

2.1 States

AU-NS New South Wales AU-QL Queensland AU-SA South Australia AU-TS Tasmania AU-VI Victoria AU-WA Western Australia

2.2 Territories

AU-CT Australian Capital Territory AU-NT Northern Territory

3 Decoding list

AU-CT Australian Capital Territory AU-NS New South Wales AU-NT Northern Territory AU-QL Queensland AU-SA South Australia AU-TS Tasmania AU-VI Victoria AU-WA Western Australia

4 See also

Australia ISO standards

Read more »

Topics: ISO 3166-2 AU, Comparison With Postal Abbreviations...

Isolated physical systemA physical system is said to be isolated if it does not interact with anything. Isolated physical systems follow a number of conservation laws. As a concrete example, consider the following situation. Suppose you are standing still on the perfectly icy (iIsomerIn chemistry, isomers are molecules with the same chemical formula and often with the same kinds of bonds between atoms, but in which the atoms are arranged differently. Many isomers share similar if not identical properties in most chemical contexts.IsotopeIsotopes are atoms of a chemical element whose nuclei have the same atomic number, Z but different atomic weights, A''. The word isotope meaning at the same place comes from the fact that isotopes are located at the same place on the periodic table. The a
Isomorphism classAn isomorphism class is a collection of mathematical objects isomorphic with a certain mathematical object. A mathematical object usually consists of a set and some mathematical relations and operations defined over this set. Isomorphism classes are oftenIsomorphismIn mathematics, an isomorphism is a kind of interesting mapping between objects. Douglas Hofstadter provides an informal definition: :The word "isomorphism" applies when two complex structures can be mapped onto each other, in such a way that to each partIsotropicIsotropic means "independent of direction". Isotropic radiation has the same intensity regardless of the direction of measurement, and an isotropic field exerts the same action regardless of how the test particle is oriented. Isotropy is also a concept in
ISO 3166ISO 8859-1ISO 8859
ISO 8601IsolationismIsoelectric point
IsotacticISO 9660ISO 216
Non User