ISO 3166-2:SE is the entry for Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 in ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1...

, part of the ISO 3166

ISO 3166

ISO 3166 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization . It defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, special areas of geographical interest, and their principal subdivisions . The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation...

 standard

Standardization

Standardization is the process of developing and implementing technical standards.The goals of standardization can be to help with independence of single suppliers , compatibility, interoperability, safety, repeatability, or quality....

 published by the International Organization for Standardization

International Organization for Standardization

The International Organization for Standardization , widely known as ISO, is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. Founded on February 23, 1947, the organization promulgates worldwide proprietary, industrial and commercial...

 (ISO), which defines code

Code

A code is a rule for converting a piece of information into another form or representation , not necessarily of the same type....

s for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., province

Province

A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.-Etymology:The English word "province" is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century Old French "province," which itself comes from the Latin word "provincia," which referred to...

s or states) of all countries

Country

A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...

 coded in ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166-1

ISO 3166-1 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation of names...

.

Currently for Sweden, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 21 counties

Counties of Sweden

The Counties of Sweden are the first level administrative and political subdivisions of Sweden. Sweden is divided into 21 counties. The counties were established in 1634 on Count Axel Oxenstierna's initiative, superseding the historical provinces of Sweden to introduce a modern administration...

.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is SE, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest...

 code of Sweden. The second part is one or two letters, which is the alphabetic code (länsbokstav) of the county, and was used in vehicle registration plates until 1973.

Current codes

Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).

In ISO 3166-2, the numeric code (länskod) of each county is shown for information purposes in square brackets after the name of the county. However, these alternative code elements are not official ISO 3166-2 codes, since this part of ISO 3166 does not allow for duplicate coding of identical subdivisions.

Subdivision names are sorted in Swedish alphabet

Swedish alphabet

Modern Swedish is written with a 29-letter Latin alphabet:Prior to the 13th edition of Svenska Akademiens ordlista in 2006, the letters and were collated together....

ical order: a-z, å, ä, ö.

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Code	Subdivision name	Alternative code
SE-K	Blekinge län	[SE-10]
SE-W	Dalarnas län	[SE-20]
SE-I	Gotlands län	[SE-09]
SE-X	Gävleborgs län	[SE-21]
SE-N	Hallands län	[SE-13]
SE-Z	Jämtlands län	[SE-23]
SE-F	Jönköpings län	[SE-06]
SE-H	Kalmar län	[SE-08]
SE-G	Kronobergs län	[SE-07]
SE-BD	Norrbottens län	[SE-25]
SE-M	Skåne län	[SE-12]
SE-AB	Stockholms län	[SE-01]
SE-D	Södermanlands län	[SE-04]
SE-C	Uppsala län	[SE-03]
SE-S	Värmlands län	[SE-17]
SE-AC	Västerbottens län	[SE-24]
SE-Y	Västernorrlands län	[SE-22]
SE-U	Västmanlands län	[SE-19]
SE-O	Västra Götalands län	[SE-14]
SE-T	Örebro län	[SE-18]
SE-E	Östergötlands län	[SE-05]

See also

• Subdivisions of Sweden
  Subdivisions of Sweden
  There are several series of subdivisions of Sweden.* Judiciary*# Supreme Court , Supreme Administrative Court...
  
  
• FIPS region codes of Sweden
• NUTS codes of Sweden

External links

• Counties of Sweden, Statoids.com