Talk:ISO 3166-2:ES

Should the "Autonomous communities" be included on this page? The codes don't seem to fit the format, although they are mentioned on the ISO newsletters. --Phil | Talk 11:15, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)

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In Spain, Spanish is everywhere an official language, there are no regions where the regional language is the sole official language. They are co-official.

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The page is just wrong, as is the page for Albania (and maybe others). The codes do fit the format, it is simply that in some cases 3166-2 describes a hierarchy and in those cases the top level codes are shown stripped of their country prefix.

3166-2:ES describes three types of entity. autonomous communities, provinces categorised by autonomous community, and African cities.

Sorted alphabetically by province within community, the correct situation for Spain is:

Andaluc&iacute;a (8)   Almer&iacute;a C&aacute;diz C&oacute;rdoba Granada Huelva Ja&eacute;n M&aacute;laga Sevilla Arag&oacute;n (3)   Huesca Teruel Zaragoza Asturias, Principado de (1)   Asturias Canarias (2)   Las Palmas Santa Cruz de Tenerife Cantabria (1)   Cantabria Castilla-La Mancha (5)   Albacete Ciudad Real Cuenca Guadalajara Toledo Castilla y Le&oacute;n (9)   &Aacute;vila Burgos Le&oacute;n Palencia Salamanca Segovia Soria Valladolid Zamora Catalu&ntilde;a (4)   Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Extremadura (2)   Badajoz C&aacute;ceres Galicia (4)   A Coru&ntilde;a Lugo Ourense Pontevedra Illes Balears (1)   Baleares La Rioja (1)   La Rioja Madrid, Comunidad de (1)   Madrid Murcia, R&eacute;gion de (1)   Murcia Navarra, Comunidad Foral de (1)   Navarra Pa&iacute;s Vasco (3)   &Aacute;lava Guip&uacute;zcoa Vizcaya Valenciana, Comunidad (3)   Alicante Castell&oacute;n Valencia Autonomous cities in North Africa (2):   Ceuta Melilla

Note that with the exception of the Balearics (IB/PM), whenever a Community maps to a single province the upper and lower level codes are the same. Additionally the above table shows the correct labels which are also a key part of the Standard!

Hope that helps. Can somebody please rewrite the article accordingly? Chris Dent