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ISO 3166-2:BE is the entry for Belgium 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 Belgium, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions:

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is BE, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Belgium. The second part is three letters. For the provinces, the first letter indicates the region where the province is in:

V: Flemish Region (Dutch: Vlaams Gewest)
W: Walloon Region (French: Région wallonne)

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:

(fr): French
(nl): Dutch

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Regions

Code	Subdivision name (nl)	Subdivision name (fr)	Subdivision name (en)^[a]
BE-BRU	Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest	Bruxelles-Capitale, Région de	Brussels
BE-VLG	Vlaams Gewest	flamande, Région^{[note 1]}	Flanders
BE-WAL	Waals Gewest^{[note 2]}	wallonne, Région	Wallonia

Notes

^ For reference only, French name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.
^ For reference only, Dutch name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.

Provinces

Code	Subdivision name	Subdivision name (en)^[a]	Region
BE-VAN	Antwerpen (nl)	Antwerp	VLG
BE-WBR	Brabant wallon (fr)	Walloon Brabant	WAL
BE-WHT	Hainaut (fr)	Hainaut	WAL
BE-WLG	Liège (fr)	Liège	WAL
BE-VLI	Limburg (nl)	Limburg	VLG
BE-WLX	Luxembourg (fr)	Luxembourg	WAL
BE-WNA	Namur (fr)	Namur	WAL
BE-VOV	Oost-Vlaanderen (nl)	East Flanders	VLG
BE-VBR	Vlaams-Brabant (nl)	Flemish Brabant	VLG
BE-VWV	West-Vlaanderen (nl)	West Flanders	VLG

Notes

^ ^a ^b For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.

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. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013.