ISO 3166-2:ES

ISO 3166-2:ES is the entry for Spain in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

Currently for Spain, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:

• 17 autonomous communities and 2 autonomous cities in North Africa
• 50 provinces

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is ES, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Spain. The second part is one or two letters. For the provinces, the letters were originally used in vehicle registration plates. The codes for the following provinces are based on the names of their capital cities rather than their own names:

• Álava/Araba (ES-VI): Vitoria
• Asturias (ES-O): Oviedo
• Illes Balears (ES-PM): Palma
• Cantabria (ES-S): Santander
• Gipuzkoa (ES-SS): San Sebastián
• La Rioja (ES-LO): Logroño
• Las Palmas (ES-GC): Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Bizkaia (ES-BI): Bilbao

Current codes[]

Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).

ISO 639-1 codes are used to represent subdivision names in the following administrative languages:

• (es): Spanish
• (eu): Basque
• (ca): Catalan
• (gl): Galician

Except where noted, the names given are in Spanish (Castilian). In autonomous communities and provinces where any of the regional languages is the sole official language, the Spanish name is given in square brackets for information. In subdivisions where a regional language is official alongside Spanish, both names are listed vertically.

Autonomous communities; autonomous cities in Spain[]

Code	Subdivision name (es)[note 1]	Subdivision name (en)[note 2]	Subdivision category
ES-AN	Andalucía	Andalusia	autonomous community
ES-AR	Aragón	Aragon	autonomous community
ES-AS	Asturias, Principado de	Principality of Asturias	autonomous community
ES-CN	Canarias	Canary Islands	autonomous community
ES-CB	Cantabria	Cantabria	autonomous community
ES-CL	Castilla y León	Castile and León	autonomous community
ES-CM	Castilla-La Mancha	Castile-La Mancha	autonomous community
ES-CT	Catalunya (ca) [Cataluña]	Catalonia	autonomous community
ES-CE	Ceuta	Ceuta	autonomous city in North Africa
ES-EX	Extremadura	Extremadura	autonomous community
ES-GA	Galicia (gl) [Galicia]	Galicia	autonomous community
ES-IB	Illes Balears (ca) [Islas Baleares]	Balearic Islands	autonomous community
ES-RI	La Rioja	La Rioja	autonomous community
ES-MD	Madrid, Comunidad de	Community of Madrid	autonomous community
ES-ML	Melilla	Melilla	autonomous city in North Africa
ES-MC	Murcia, Región de	Region of Murcia	autonomous community
ES-NC	Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Nafarroako Foru Komunitatea (eu)	Chartered Community of Navarre	autonomous community
ES-PV	País Vasco Euskal Herria (eu)	Basque Country	autonomous community
ES-VC	Valenciana, Comunitat (ca) [Valenciana, Comunidad]	Valencian Community	autonomous community

Notes

Provinces[]

Changes[]

The following changes to the entry have been announced in newsletters by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998:

Special territories[]

The following two areas not covered by European Union Customs arrangements are also exceptionally reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes on the request of the World Customs Organization:

• EA Ceuta, Melilla
• IC Canary Islands

However, these codes do not correspond in any way to the ISO 3166-2 codes of the territories.

See also[]

• Subdivisions of Spain
• FIPS region codes of Spain
• NUTS codes of Spain
• Neighbouring countries: AD, FR, GI, MA, PT.

External links[]

• ISO Online Browsing Platform: ES
• Provinces of Spain, Statoids.com