# Governing District

The Governing District object represents the information for identifying the principal provinces or states of the US and Canada referenced in the [ISO 3166-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2) standards.

<table><thead><tr><th width="237.66666666666669">Property</th><th>Type</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>code</code></td><td>string</td><td>An alphanumeric code consisting of the 2 letter country code and a string of up to three alphanumeric characters. This code can be used to uniquely identify a country subdivision.</td></tr><tr><td><code>administrativeType</code></td><td>string</td><td>The type of subdivision in each country. For example, this could be a <code>Parish</code>, <code>Province</code>, <code>Emirate</code> or <code>District</code>.</td></tr><tr><td><code>name</code></td><td>string</td><td>The name of the subdivision.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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This object is reserved for future use, and it is currently defaulted to `null` in most API responses.
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