CLPlacemark - State Abbreviations?

Question

I was wondering if it was possible to get the state abbreviations from CLPlacemark?

In the CLPlacemark Reference from Apple it states:

administrativeArea The sta

Answer 1

I believe the documentation is just incorrect. The administrativeArea is always going to return the full state name for places in the United States. To get the state abbreviation you'll most likely have to create a dictionary look up table so that searching for the key "California" will return you the value "CA".