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ISO 3166-2:NL is the entry for the Kingdom of the Netherlands 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 the kingdom, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 3 countries, 12 provinces and 3 special municipalities.
The kingdom consists of the 3 countries + the country of the Netherlands which is composed of the provinces and the special municipalities.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is NL, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the Netherlands. The second part either of the following:
- two letters: provinces or countries
- two letters and a digit: special municipalities