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  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. Address Validation Status Ports
  4. Building and Residence Data Ports
  5. Business and Organization Data Ports
  6. City and Locality Data Ports
  7. Country Data Ports
  8. Customer Segmentation Data Ports
  9. Enrichment Data Ports
  10. Formatted Data Ports
  11. Postal Carrier Certification Data Ports
  12. Postcode Data Ports
  13. Province and State Data Ports
  14. Residual Data Ports
  15. Street Data Ports
  16. Supplementary Data Ports
  17. XML Ports

Address Validator Port Reference

Address Validator Port Reference

Province ISO Ports

Province ISO Ports

Input and output ports that identify the province in which an address is located. The ports read or write the province identifier that the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) defines in the ISO
3166-2
standard.
In address validation, a province is the largest political or administrative division in a country. For example, address validation identifies a state in the United States, a province in Canada, and a canton in Switzerland as provinces.

Province ISO Usage

To read or write the province ISO
3166-2
code for the province, select a Province ISO port.
Consider the following guidelines when you use Province ports:
  • There are three Province ISO input ports and six Province ISO output ports. Use Province
    ISO 1
    to identify the province or region defined at the highest level in the country, such as a state in the United States of America. Use Province
    ISO 2
    to identify a subdivision of the province if the ISO
    3166-2
    standard records the subdivision.
  • The ISO
    3166-2
    standard defines provinces at multiple levels in some countries. Use Province
    ISO 1
    to identify the largest political region. For example, the standard defines code values at regional and provincial level in the Philippines. In this case, use Province
    ISO 1
    to identify the regions and Province
    ISO 2
    to identify the provinces. In the Philippines, a region contains multiple provinces.
    The ISO
    3166-2
    standard does not identify state subdivisions in the United States. Use the Province
    Abbreviation 2
    port to identify United States county names.

Port Locations

The following table provides the location and default precision of the
Province 1
through
Province 3
ports:
Port Type
Port Group
Template Model
Precision
Input
Discrete
Advanced
3
Output
Last Line Elements
Basic
50
The following table provides the location and default precision of the
Province 4
through
Province 6
ports:
Port Type
Port Group
Template Model
Precision
Input
Discrete
Advanced
3
Input
Last Line Elements
Advanced
50

Province ISO Example

The ISO
3166-2
standard uses two coded values to uniquely identify a province. The first value identifies the country and the second value identifies the province. The province values can use letters or numbers and can have up to three characters.
For example. the following values identify New York state in the United States:
US-NY
The Province ISO ports contain the province values only. The ISO also tracks the country identification codes in the
3166-1
specification.
You can view a list of ISO
3166-2
codes on the following site:

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