State/Province Code
2-letter state or province abbreviation. Locale-specific due to country-dependent subdivision codes (e.g., US states, CA provinces, AU states/territories).
State/Province Code
geography.location.state_code2-letter state or province abbreviation. Locale-specific due to country-dependent subdivision codes (e.g., US states, CA provinces, AU states/territories).
Domain
geography
Category
location
Casts to
VARCHAR
Scope
Locale-specific
Locales
EN_US, EN_CA, EN_AU
Try it
CLI
$ finetype infer -i "CA" --mode column
→ geography.location.state_codeDuckDB
Detect
SELECT finetype('CA');
-- → 'geography.location.state_code'Cast expression
UPPER(CAST({col} AS VARCHAR))Safe cast pipeline
-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS VARCHAR) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'geography.location.state_code';JSON Schema
finetype taxonomy geography.location.state_code -o json-schema
{
"$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/geography.location.state_code",
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"description": "2-letter state or province abbreviation. Locale-specific due to country-dependent subdivision codes (e.g., US states, CA provinces, AU states/territories).",
"examples": [
"CA",
"NY",
"TX",
"FL",
"ON"
],
"pattern": "^[A-Z]{2}$",
"title": "State/Province Code",
"type": "string",
"x-finetype-label": "geography.location.state_code",
"x-finetype-pii": false
}Examples
CANYTXFLONAliases
state_abbreviationprovince_code