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FIPS 10-4 The FIPS 10-4 standard, ''Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions'', was a list of two-letter country codes that were used by the U.S. Government for geographical data processing in many ...

region codes, using a standardized name format, and cross-linking to articles. The list is broken up into alphabetical sections. ABC – DEF – GHI – JKL – MNO – PQR – STU – VWXYZ On September 2, 2008, FIPS 10-4 was one of ten standards withdrawn by

NIST The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical sci ...

as a

Federal Information Processing Standard The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer systems of non-military, American ...

. It is to be a neutral replacement for

ISO 3166 ISO 3166 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, special areas of geographical interest, and their principal subdivisions (e.g., ...

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FIPS 10-4 Codes and history
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Table to see the evolution of the codes over time

Administrative Divisions of Countries ("Statoids")
Statoids.com

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{{DEFAULTSORT:FIPS region codes Country subdivision codes Lists of abbreviations Region codes

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