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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 Nouveau-Brunswick
QC Québec
BC Colombie-Britannique
Province de Alberta Alberta
LABRADOR Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
Terre-Neuve Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
PEI Prince Edward Island
New Brunswick New 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 English to French do not occur, as shown in the final two examples.