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Later still, QC evolved as the second two-letter non-punctuated abbreviation, making Quebec's abbreviation consistent with other provinces insofar as using letters solely from the name of the province, but not the word "province", as PQ did. [citation needed] New York State and New York City use QB to identify Quebec vehicle licence plates. [5]
Currently for Canada, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 10 provinces and 3 territories. Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is CA, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Canada. The second part is two letters, which is the postal abbreviation for the province or territory.
A Canadian postal code (French: code postal) is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. [1] Like British, Irish, and Dutch postcodes, Canada's postal codes are alphanumeric. They are in the format A1A 1A1, where A is a letter and 1 is a digit, with a space separating the third and fourth characters.
The provinces and territories are sometimes grouped into regions, listed here from west to east by province, followed by the three territories.Seats in the Senate are equally divided among four regions: the West, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes, with special status for Newfoundland and Labrador as well as for the three territories of Northern Canada ('the North').
The format of the ISO 3166-2 codes is different for each country. The codes may be alphabetic, numeric, or alphanumeric, and they may also be of constant or variable length. The following is a table of the ISO 3166-2 codes of each country (those with codes defined), grouped by their format: [citation needed]
"The Garden Province" [20] or "Canada's Green Province" (French: La province verte du Canada) – the former was used on its license plates from 1966 to 1972; the latter was used from 2007 to 2012. "Home of Anne of Green Gables" – formerly used on its license plates from 1993 to 1997; refers to the fictional rural hometown of the titular ...
24 66: Territoire équivalent of Montreal, Quebec 24 67: Roussillon Regional County Municipality, Quebec 24 68: Les Jardins-de-Napierville Regional County Municipality, Quebec 35 07: Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario 35 08: [vacant slot] 35 09: Lanark County, Ontario 35 10: Frontenac Census Division, Ontario 47 04: Division No. 4 ...
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