FIPS 10-4

FIPS Publication 10-4, COUNTRIES, DEPENDENCIES, AREAS OF SPECIAL SOVEREIGNTY, AND THEIR PRINCIPAL ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS, provides a list of the basic geopolitical entities in the world, together with the principal administrative divisions that comprise each entity.

Machine-readable files of the various versions are available here.

A map in shapefile format is available here.

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To the extent possible under law, Eric Muller has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this page. This work is published from the United States.

Note that this does not affect the rights other persons may have in those files. I am not qualified to determine whether such rights exist.

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History:

• September 9, 2009: added the terms of use
• September 9, 2008: added the link to the map page
• September 5, 2008: first version of this page.