Configuring state information

State information includes both the name of the state and the usual abbreviation of the state name.

The State typelist: PolicyCenter provides a State typelist to represent states, prefectures, or provinces. The typecodes in this typelist have Name values that are full, unabbreviated names, such as Washington for the US typecode WA and Western Australia for the AU typecode AU_WA.
The StateAbbreviation typelist: Abbreviations corresponding to State typecodes are defined in the typelist StateAbbreviation. This typelist provides a set of typecodes with Name values that are abbreviations for states or provinces.

Note: Japan (JP) does not use abbreviations for its prefecture names.

Mapping between state names and state abbreviations

For countries that use state abbreviations, such as AU and US, there is a one-to-one relationship between the country’s typecodes for State and StateAbbreviation. This relationship supports distinguishing between abbreviations that have the same value in more than one country. For example, the abbreviation WA is used both in the United States for the state of Washington and in Australia for the state of Western Australia.

For the countries defined in the StateAbbreviation typelist, you can use methods on the State and StateAbbreviation typelists to get abbreviations and state names.