ISO 3166-2:AU is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Australia. It describes 6 States and 2 Territories. The first part is the ISO 3166-1 code AU for Australia, the second part of the code was two-digit-alphabetic. Now it varies.

Comparison with postal abbreviations

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Australia also uses 4-digit numeric postcodes, such as Sydney NSW 2000.

Note these were different from the standard Australian postal abbreviations. Now ISO 3166-2:AU is in accordance with Australian Standard AS 4212-1994. Those changes were announced in ISO 2004-03-08 Newsletter I-6.

State/Territory	ISO 3166-2 (old)	Postal & ISO 3166-2 (new)
New South Wales	AU-NS	NSW
Queensland	AU-QL	QLD
South Australia	AU-SA	SA
Tasmania	AU-TS	TAS
Victoria	AU-VI	VIC
Western Australia	AU-WA	WA
Australian Capital Territory	AU-CT	ACT
Northern Territory	AU-NT	NT

Codes

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Sorted by Code

AU-ACT	Australian Capital Territory
AU-NSW	New South Wales
AU-NT	Northern Territory
AU-QLD	Queensland
AU-SA	South Australia
AU-TAS	Tasmania
AU-VIC	Victoria
AU-WA	Western Australia

Sorted by Name

States
New South Wales	AU-NSW
Queensland	AU-QLD
South Australia	AU-SA
Tasmania	AU-TAS
Victoria	AU-VIC
Western Australia	AU-WA
Territories
Australian Capital Territory	AU-ACT
Northern Territory	AU-NT

See also

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• ISO 3166-2, the reference table for all country region codes.
• ISO 3166-1, the reference table for all country codes, mostly as used for domain names on the internet.

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