Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. ISO 3166-2: NL is the entry for the Netherlands 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 the Netherlands, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 12 provinces, which cover the full European part of the Netherlands. Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba have a separate ISO 3166-1 code (BQ), but are part of the Netherlands proper and explicitly included in ISO 3166-1 code NL as well