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Belgian NIS code (REFNIS)

ID be_nis_code

DatatypeNot PIIidentifier

Five-digit code of a Belgian administrative area in the REFNIS nomenclature of Statbel, the Belgian statistical office (formerly NIS/INS), used since the 1970 census. The first digit is the province, the second the arrondissement and the last three the municipality: 40000 is the province of East Flanders, 44000 the arrondissement of Ghent and 44021 the city of Ghent. The two provinces created when Brabant was split in 1995 have 20001 (Flemish Brabant) and 20002 (Walloon Brabant). 01000 is Belgium and 02000, 03000 and 04000 are the Flemish, Walloon and Brussels-Capital regions. A merged municipality gets a new code, so codes change with mergers (2019, 2025). A letter after the code denotes a former municipality (deelgemeente, section) of a merged one, as in 71022E (Stokrooie, part of Hasselt).

Categories
Geographic identifiers
Countries
Belgium
Languages
Common to most languages
Wikidata
P1567
Quality
90/100 · missing: detector coverage
Metacrafter rules
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Regular expression

^(?:[1-9]\d[01]\d{2}[A-HJ-NP-Y]?|0[1-4]000)$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
40000Province of East Flanders, an example of Wikidata P1567
44021Ghent, an example of Wikidata P1567
20001Province of Flemish Brabant
04000Brussels-Capital Region
71022EStokrooie, a section of Hasselt
57081JGaurain-Ramecroix, a section of Tournai
4402 invalidFour digits
05000 invalidNot a region code

Translations

LanguageNameDescription
DutchNIS-codeVijfcijferige code van Statbel voor een provincie, arrondissement of gemeente; een letter achteraan duidt een deelgemeente aan.
FrenchCode INS (REFNIS)Code à cinq chiffres de Statbel pour une province, un arrondissement ou une commune; une lettre finale désigne une section de commune.
GermanNIS-Code
RussianКод NIS Бельгии (REFNIS)Пятизначный код Statbel для провинции, округа или коммуны Бельгии; буква в конце обозначает часть объединённой коммуны.

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