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| | NGA: GNS; FIPS PUB 10-4 |
 | | For applications involving interchange of international data that require the use of the country codes of the International Organization for Standardization, i.e., ISO 3166, FIPS PUB 104-1, American National Standard Codes for the Representation of Names of Countries, Dependencies, and Areas of Special Sovereignty for Information Interchange, is available. |
 | | A typical entry consists of the two-character, alphabetic country code of each basic entity; the entity name; the designatory term or terms for administrative divisions of that entity; and the names and complete four-character codes of all the principal divisions that comprise the entity. |
 | | As in FIPS 10-3, each basic geopolitical entity is represented by a two-character, alphabetic country code, and each principal administrative division is identified by a four-character code consisting of the two-character country code followed by a two-character, primarily numeric, administrative division code. |
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