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Belgian region and province code (ISO 3166-2:BE)

ID be_subdivision_code

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Code of a Belgian region or province from ISO 3166-2:BE, BE- and three letters, alone or with the country code. The three regions are BE-BRU (Brussels-Capital), BE-VLG (Flemish Region) and BE-WAL (Walloon Region). The ten provinces have codes that start with V in Flanders (BE-VAN Antwerp, BE-VBR Flemish Brabant, BE-VLI Limburg, BE-VOV East Flanders, BE-VWV West Flanders) and with W in Wallonia (BE-WBR Walloon Brabant, BE-WHT Hainaut, BE-WLG Liège, BE-WLX Luxembourg, BE-WNA Namur). Brussels has no province.

Pattern of
identifier for a country subdivision per ISO 3166-2 iso3166code
Categories
Geographic identifiers
Countries
Belgium
Languages
Common to most languages
Quality
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Regular expression

^(?:BE-)?(?:BRU|VLG|WAL|V(?:AN|BR|LI|OV|WV)|W(?:BR|HT|LG|LX|NA))$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
BE-VWVWest Flanders
BE-BRUBrussels-Capital Region
BE-WLXProvince of Luxembourg
WNAProvince of Namur without the country code
BE-BRA invalidBrabant was split in 1995 and has no code
BE-ANT invalidNot a code; Antwerp is BE-VAN

Translations

LanguageNameDescription
DutchCode van een gewest of provincie (ISO 3166-2:BE)
FrenchCode de région ou de province (ISO 3166-2:BE)
GermanCode einer Region oder Provinz (ISO 3166-2:BE)
RussianКод региона или провинции Бельгии (ISO 3166-2:BE)

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