--- id: "nl_province_code" kind: "pattern" status: "draft" is_pii: false categories: ["geo"] country: ["NL"] langs: ["common"] quality: 80 url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/nl_province_code" --- # Dutch province code (ISO 3166-2:NL) (`nl_province_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 one of the 12 Dutch provinces from ISO 3166-2:NL, two letters after NL-, such as NL-NH (Noord-Holland), NL-FR (Fryslân) or NL-ZH (Zuid-Holland), alone or with the country code. ISO 3166-2:NL also lists Aruba (NL-AW), Curaçao (NL-CW) and Sint Maarten (NL-SX) as countries and Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius (NL-BQ1 to NL-BQ3) as special municipalities; they are not provinces and are not covered. Statistics Netherlands uses its own codes, the pattern nl_cbs_province_code. - Pattern of: `iso3166code` - Personal data (PII): no - Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo) - Countries: Netherlands (NL) - Languages: Common to most languages (common) - Classification: categorical ## Detection Regular expression (Python `re`): ``` ^(?:NL-)?(?:DR|FL|FR|GE|GR|LI|NB|NH|OV|UT|ZE|ZH)$ ``` ## Examples - `NL-NH` — Noord-Holland - `NL-FR` — Fryslân - `ZH` — Zuid-Holland, without the country code - `NL-BQ1` (invalid example) — Bonaire, a special municipality, not a province - `NL-FS` (invalid example) — Not a province code ## Translations - nl: Provinciecode (ISO 3166-2:NL) - ru: Код провинции Нидерландов (ISO 3166-2:NL): Код одной из 12 провинций Нидерландов по ISO 3166-2:NL, например NL-NH (Северная Голландия). ## Sources - wikipedia: - wikipedia: ## Quality Score 80/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage. JSON: · Edit: