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Province ISO Codes

You can receive the province ISO code in batch, interactive, and fast completion results. The province ISO code is the first three characters of the ISO 3166-2 code of the country. To return the province code, set the Type
attribute of the Province element to ISO. Address Verification returns the province ISO code in the Item 1 field of the element.

You receive province ISO codes in the validated output for the following countries:

Andorra	Australia	Austria
Belarus	Belgium	Brazil
Bulgaria	Canada	China
Finland	France	Germany
Greenland	Haiti	Hungary
Indonesia	Ireland	Italy
Jamaica	Japan	Kazakhstan
Madagascar	Mexico	Moldova
Mozambique	Netherlands	Oman
Pakistan	Paraguay	Philippines
Poland	Portugal	Romania
Russia	Saudi Arabia	Slovakia
South Africa	South Korea	Sweden
Switzerland	Ukraine	United Kingdom
United States	Zambia

Province Information in the United Kingdom

Address Verification returns the province ISO code in the Item 2 field of the Province element in a United Kingdom address.

The following table describes the province hierarchy in the United Kingdom:

Province	Type
Province_1	Postal Province
Province_2	Administrative Province
Province_3	Traditional Province

Within the Royal Mail Database, province ISO codes are available for the Administrative Province. Therefore, Address Verification delivers the province ISO code in the Province_2 field.

Similarly, when you set the Type
attribute to COUNTRY_STANDARD, Address Verification returns the administrative province or county name in the Item 2 field in a United Kingdom address.

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Province Information in the United Kingdom