ISO 3166-2:TV

The ISO 3166-2 codes for Tuvalu describe the 8 atolls which make up the country. The first part of the code is the ISO 3166-1 country code TV for Tuvalu, the second part is a three letter code based on the island name.

The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for use on package labels, containers and such. Anywhere where a short alphanumeric code can serve to clearly indicate a location in a more convenient and less ambiguous form than the full place name. US readers may wish to consider them as the equivalent of worldwide zip or postal codes. Within the Wikipedia, the codes from the country pages link to the pages for the locations they identify.

The codes are currently not part of the ISO 3166-2 standard. They were only present in a draft version before the actual publishing, but were withdrawn as being not relevant enough.

Encoding table

 TV-FUN  Funafuti
 TV-NMG  Nanumanga
 TV-NMA  Nanumea
 TV-NIT  Niutao
 TV-NIU  Nui
 TV-NKF  Nukufetau
 TV-NKL  Nukulaelae
 TV-VAI  Vaitupu

References

• http://www.statoids.com/utv.html