Interestingly enough, if I pull up the list of Spain's provinces here:

http://www.commondatahub.com/live/geography/state_province_region/iso_3166_2_state_codes

I am returned 52 results.

Wikipedia says there are 50 provinces.

Satchmo has 19.

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Bob Waycott <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> I am wondering where we pulled the list of AdminArea names & values from.
> We just had an order come in from Spain that could not be successfully
> processed via Authorize.net. Authorize declined the transaction multiple
> times, showing the following reason:
>
> Transaction Status: Declined (Authorization with the card issuer was
> successful but the transaction was declined due to an address or ZIP code
> mismatch with the address on file with the card issuing bank based on the
> settings in the Merchant Interface.)
>
> Address Verification Status: Address Info not available for Cardholder (U)
>
> I've looked around, and the only thing I'm able to come up with is that
> Satchmo has sent Authorize.net the following value for the customer's state:
>
> "Autonomous Region of Madrid"
>
> Where did we come up with this name in the AdminArea fixtures? From what I
> see at the following two links, the established English name is "Madrid."
> This isn't the first time I have had to manually modify state/province names
> in the AdminArea model.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Spain
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_communities_of_Spain
>
> I also notice there's a listing for "Autonomous Region of Navarre" -- the
> links above show two differing names for this province.
>
> Anyone know if there's a way of getting a definitive list of state/province
> names that are accepted by payment processors?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>

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