---
id: "be_subdivision_code"
kind: "pattern"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["geo"]
country: ["BE"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/be_subdivision_code"
---

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

> **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.

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: `iso3166code`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo)
- Countries: Belgium (BE)
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

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

## Examples

- `BE-VWV` — West Flanders
- `BE-BRU` — Brussels-Capital Region
- `BE-WLX` — Province of Luxembourg
- `WNA` — Province of Namur without the country code
- `BE-BRA` (invalid example) — Brabant was split in 1995 and has no code
- `BE-ANT` (invalid example) — Not a code; Antwerp is BE-VAN

## Translations

- nl: Code van een gewest of provincie (ISO 3166-2:BE)
- fr: Code de région ou de province (ISO 3166-2:BE)
- de: Code einer Region oder Provinz (ISO 3166-2:BE)
- ru: Код региона или провинции Бельгии (ISO 3166-2:BE)

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:BE>
- doc: <https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:BE>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage.

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