Editing FIPS 10-4

{{short description|Withdrawn Federal Information Processing Standard}}

The '''[[Federal Information Processing Standard|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 publications, such as the ''[[The World Factbook|CIA World Factbook]]''. The standard was also known as [[DAFIF]] 0413 ed 7 Amdt. No. 3 (November 2003) and as DIA 65-18 ([[Defense Intelligence Agency]], 1994, "Geopolitical Data Elements and Related Features"). 

The FIPS 10-4 codes are similar to (but sometimes incompatible with) the [[ISO 3166-1 alpha-2]] [[country code]]s. The standard also includes codes for the top-level subdivision of the countries, similar to but usually incompatible with the [[ISO 3166-2]] standard.

== History ==
On September 2, 2008, FIPS 10-4 was one of ten standards withdrawn by [[National Institute of Standards and Technology|NIST]] as a Federal Information Processing Standard.<ref>Federal Register, September 2, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 170), page 51276</ref> The [[National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency]] continued to maintain the FIPS 10-4 codes in an informal document titled "Geopolitical Entities and Codes" (GEC) until December 31, 2014,<ref name="CIAWorldFactbook">{{cite book|chapter=Appendix D: Country Data Codes|chapter-url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/references/country-data-codes/|title=The World Factbook|publisher=[[Central Intelligence Agency]]|accessdate=August 18, 2018|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = NGA: GNS Country Codes|url = http://geonames.nga.mil/gns/html/countrycodes.html|website = geonames.nga.mil|access-date = 2016-02-16}}</ref> retiring the GEC on March 31, 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=GENC Standard — Frequently Asked Questions|work=NSG Standards Registry|publisher=National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency|accessdate=December 23, 2021|url=https://nsgreg.nga.mil/genc/faq.jsp}}</ref>

On January 23, 2013, the [[United States Department of Defense|U.S. Department of Defense]] released the first edition of "Geopolitical Entities, Names and Codes" (GENC), a U.S. federal government profile of [[ISO&nbsp;3166-1]] and [[ISO&nbsp;3166-2]]. GENC is designed to be compatible with ISO&nbsp;3166 but reflect U.S. government [[diplomatic recognition]] and naming decisions by the [[United States Board on Geographic Names|U.S. Board on Geographic Names]]; it is intended to be the basis for a future U.S. national profile of the ISO standards.<ref>{{cite web|title=Geopolitical Entities, Names, and Codes|work=NSG Standards Registry|publisher=National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency|accessdate=December 23, 2021|url=https://nsgreg.nga.mil/geopoliticalCode.jsp}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[List of FIPS country codes]]
* [[List of FIPS region codes]]

== References ==
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