Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index ISO 3166-2 codes for Australia describe 6 States and 2 Territories. The first part is the ISO 3166-1 code AU for Australia, the second part of the code is two-digit-alphabetic. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such. Anywhere where a short alphanumeric code can serve to clearly indicate a location in a more convenient and less ambiguous form than the full place name. US readers may wish to consider them as the equivalent of worldwide zip or postal codes. Within the Wikipedia, the codes from the country pages link to the pages for the locations they identify. Table of contents 1 Encoding list 1.1 States 1.2 Territories 2 Decoding list 3 See also Encoding list States AU-NS New South Wales AU-QL Queensland AU-SA South Australia AU-TS Tasmania AU-VI Victoria AU-WA Western Australia Territories AU-CT Australian Capital Territory AU-NT Northern Territory Decoding list AU-CT Australian Capital Territory AU-NS New South Wales AU-NT Northern Territory AU-QL Queensland AU-SA South Australia AU-TS Tasmania AU-VI Victoria AU-WA Western Australia See also ISO 3166-2, the reference table for all country region codes. ISO 3166-1, the reference table for all country codes, as used for domain names on the internet. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.