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ISO 3166-2:US is the entry for the United States in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
An enlargeable map of the state of Iowa. Names Common name: Iowa. Pronunciation: / ˈ aɪ oʊ. ə,-ə w ə / ⓘ Official name: State of Iowa; Abbreviations and name codes Postal symbol: IA; ISO 3166-2 code: US-IA; Internet second-level domain: .ia.us; Nicknames Hawkeye State [4] Land of the Rolling Prairie; Tall Corn State; Adjectival: Iowa ...
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is US, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the United States. The second part is two letters, which is the postal abbreviation of the state, district, or outlying area, except the United States Minor Outlying Islands which do not have a postal abbreviation.
FIPS state codes were numeric and two-letter alphabetic codes defined in U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard Publication ("FIPS PUB") 5-2 to identify U.S. states and certain other associated areas. The standard superseded FIPS PUB 5-1 on May 28, 1987, and was superseded on September 2, 2008, by ANSI standard INCITS 38:2009. [1]
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
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2 Optional substitution. 3 List of state names with abbreviations. 4 See also. Toggle the table of contents. Template: USStateNameToAbb. 5 languages. Føroyskt;
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