# ISO 3166-2:VE

ISO 3166-2:VE is the entry for Venezuela 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 Venezuela, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for one capital district, one federal dependency and 23 states. The Venezuelan Capital District contains the central part of the capital of the country Caracas and has special status equal to the states.
Each code consists of two parts separated by a hyphen. The first part is VE, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Venezuela. The second part is a letter:
* A: federal district
* B–V (except Q): states as of late 1980s
* W: federal dependency
* X: state created in 1998
* Y–Z: former federal territories given state status in early 1990s

## Current codes

Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).
Click on the button in the header to sort each column.
| Code | Subdivision name (es) | Subdivision name (en) | Subdivision category |
| VE-Z | Amazonas | Amazonia | state |
| VE-B | Anzoátegui | Anzoategui | state |
| VE-C | Apure | Apure | state |
| VE-D | Aragua | Aragua | state |
| VE-E | Barinas | Barinas | state |
| VE-F | Bolívar | Bolivar | state |
| VE-G | Carabobo | Carabobo | state |
| VE-H | Cojedes | Cojedes | state |
| VE-Y | Delta Amacuro | Amacuro Delta | state |
| VE-W | Dependencias Federales | Federal Dependencies | federal dependency |
| VE-A | Distrito Capital | Caracas | capital district |
| VE-I | Falcón | Falcon | state |
| VE-J | Guárico | Guarico | state |
| VE-X | La Guaira | La Guaira | state |
| VE-K | Lara | Lara | state |
| VE-L | Mérida | Merida | state |
| VE-M | Miranda | Miranda | state |
| VE-N | Monagas | Monagas | state |
| VE-O | Nueva Esparta | New Sparta | state |
| VE-P | Portuguesa | Portuguesa | state |
| VE-R | Sucre | Sucre | state |
| VE-S | Táchira | Tachira | state |
| VE-T | Trujillo | Trujillo | state |
| VE-U | Yaracuy | Yaracuy | state |
| VE-V | Zulia | Zulia | state |

### Notes

* ↑ For reference only, English name not included in the ISO 3166-2 standard.

## Changes

The following changes to the entry have been announced by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998:
| Newsletter | Date issued | Description of change in newsletter | Code/Subdivision change |
| Newsletter I-4 | 2002-12-10 | Addition of one state. Subdivision categories in header re-sorted | Subdivisions added: VE-X Vargas |
| Newsletter I-5 | 2003-09-05 | Change of subdivision category of two Federal territories to States. List source updated | |
| Online Browsing Platform (OBP) | 2009-03-03 | Change of short name |
| Newsletter II-1 | 2010-02-03 (corrected 2010-02-19) | Change of short form country name in accordance with ISO 3166-1 NL VI-5 (2009-03-03) | |
| Online Browsing Platform (OBP) | 2010-02-19 | Change of short form country name in accordance with ISO 3166-1 NL VI-5 (2009-03-03) | |
| Online Browsing Platform (OBP) | 2014-12-18 | Alignment of the English and French short names upper and lower case with UNTERM; update of the remarks in French | |
| Online Browsing Platform (OBP) | 2015-11-27 | Change of spelling of category name in fra and spa | |
| Online Browsing Platform (OBP) | 2020-11-24 | Change of subdivision name of VE-X; Update List Source; Correction of the Code Source | Subdivisions renamed: VE-X Vargas → La Guaira |
| Online Browsing Platform (OBP) | 2024-02-29 | Change of short name upper case: replace the parentheses with a comma | |