Counties and Equivalent Entities of the United States, Its Possessions, and Associated Areas. Category: Federal General Data Standard, Representations and Codes

摘要

The standard implements ANSI X3.31-1988, Information Systems -- Codes -- Structure for the Identification of the Counties and County Equivalents of the United States and Its Outlying and Associated Areas for Information Interchange. The publication, which supersedes FIPS PUB 6-3, provides the names and three-digit codes that represent the counties and statistically equivalent entities of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the possessions and associated areas of the United States, for use in the interchange of formatted machine-sensible data.