---
id: "au_state"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["geo", "government"]
country: ["AU"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 75
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/au_state"
---

# Australian state or territory (`au_state`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Name of one of the six states of Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania) or of its two mainland territories (Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory). The abbreviation is the pattern au_state_code.

- Parent datatype: `admin_area_1`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo), Government related (government)
- Countries: Australia (AU)
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: categorical
- Patterns: `au_state_code`

## Examples

- `New South Wales`
- `Victoria`
- `Australian Capital Territory`

## Mappings

- fta: `STATE_PROVINCE.STATE_NAME_AU`
- schema_org: `addressRegion`

## Supported by tools

- `fta`

## Translations

- ru: Штат или территория Австралии

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_and_territories_of_Australia>
- other: <https://github.com/tsegall/fta/blob/main/SemanticTypes.md>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: regexp, negative example.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/au_state.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/AU/geo/au_state.yaml>