Multimap Implementation Guidelines - Countries and States
Multimap Implementation Guidelines - Countries and States
This document gives details of how Multimap services handle the names and internationally-recognized encoded abbreviations of different countries and, where applicable, those countries' states, provinces, territories and territorial authorities. This country- and state-related information is typically passed to Multimap as address parameters in URLs.
Please note that, although most Multimap services are not case-sensitive with regard to their parameters, some require parameters for country and state codes to be in upper case. Each Multimap service to which this rule applies contains a note to that effect in its individual Implementation Guidelines documentation.
Multimap recognizes countries by their unique two-character International Organization for Standardization (ISO) country code. Please follow the ISO standards when specifying country codes in any Multimap parameters.
You can access the full ISO list of country codes on the ISO website.
Some Multimap services also recognize countries by their official names and even common abbreviations or alternatives, such as "United States" for the United States of America. For examples of this, please see the Implementation Guidelines documentation for your individual Multimap service(s).
To specify addresses in countries with states, provinces, territories or territorial authorities,
please include the state parameter in your code.
This currently applies to five countries:
Multimap services use the ISO abbreviation codes for provinces in Canada and states in Australia and Malaysia, and Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) codes for states in the United States.
Some Multimap services (such as the Multimap API) accept the region parameter as an alternative to state.
The countries listed in this section are the only countries for which Multimap is able to geocode addresses based on the value of the state or region parameters:
it is not possible to provide accurate geocoding results based on regional denominations in other countries (such as counties in Great Britain),
although customers of those Multimap business services
that allow the upload of store records may define such parameters within their own services and then filter their records based on those parameters.
| State | ISO Code | State | ISO Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Capital Territory | ACT | South Australia | SA |
| New South Wales | NSW | Tasmania | TAS |
| Northern Territory | NT | Victoria | VIC |
| Queensland | QLD | Western Australia | WA |
These ISO codes (from ISO 3166-2) are the same 'postal designators' that Canada Post uses:
| Province | ISO Code | Province | ISO Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alberta | AB | Nunavut | NU |
| British Columbia | BC | Ontario | ON |
| Manitoba | MB | Prince Edward Island | PE |
| New Brunswick | NB | Quebec | QC |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | NL | Saskatchewan | SK |
| Northwest Territories | NT | Yukon Territory | YT |
| Nova Scotia | NS |
| State | ISO Code | State | ISO Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johor | MY-01 | Perak | MY-08 |
| Kedah | MY-02 | Perlis | MY-09 |
| Kelantan | MY-03 | Pulau Pinang | MY-07 |
| Kuala Lumpur | MY-14 | Putrajaya | MY-16 |
| Labuan | MY-15 | Sabah | MY-12 |
| Melaka | MY-04 | Sarawak | MY-13 |
| Negeri Sembilan | MY-05 | Selangor | MY-10 |
| Pahang | MY-06 | Terengganu | MY-11 |
To specify addresses in New Zealand, you can use the state parameter
to contain the name of the territorial authority for each address.
Examples include:
This list of New Zealand territorial authorities does not include the Chatham Islands.
| State | FIPS Alpha Code | State | FIPS Alpha Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | AL | Montana | MT |
| Alaska | AK | North Carolina | NC |
| Arizona | AZ | North Dakota | ND |
| Arkansas | AR | Nebraska | NE |
| California | CA | Nevada | NV |
| Colorado | CO | New Hampshire | NH |
| Connecticut | CT | New Jersey | NJ |
| Delaware | DE | New Mexico | NM |
| District of Columbia | DC | New York | NY |
| Florida | FL | Ohio | OH |
| Georgia | GA | Oklahoma | OK |
| Hawaii | HI | Oregon | OR |
| Idaho | ID | Pennsylvania | PA |
| Illinois | IL | Rhode Island | RI |
| Indiana | IN | South Carolina | SC |
| Iowa | IA | South Dakota | SD |
| Kansas | KS | Tennessee | TN |
| Kentucky | KY | Texas | TX |
| Louisiana | LA | Utah | UT |
| Maine | ME | Vermont | VT |
| Maryland | MD | Virginia | VA |
| Massachusetts | MA | Washington | WA |
| Michigan | MI | West Virginia | WV |
| Minnesota | MN | Wisconsin | WI |
| Mississippi | MS | Wyoming | WY |
| Missouri | MO |
For general account enquiries or further services, please contact the Multimap Sales team:
| London, Great Britain | +44 (0)20 7632 7800 |
| email: | sales@multimap.com |