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State/Province

Standardization Definition

State/Province
Description

The State/Province standardization definition standardizes provinces and territories to their full name.

Examples Input Output
MB Manitoba
NB New Brunswick
QC Québec
BC British Columbia
Province of Alberta Alberta
Newfoundland Newfoundland and Labrador
IPE Île-du-Prince-Édouard
NOUVEAU BRUNSWICK Nouveau-Brunswick
Remarks Official Postal ISO abbreviations are expanded to their full English form. Non-official abbreviations are expanded to the full form in the source language of the abbreviation. Following this behavior, translations from French to English do not occur, as evidenced in the final two examples.