Federal Information Processing Standard state code: Difference between revisions

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A common question is to ask why are there no State FIPS codes for 03, 07, 14, 43, and 52. These codes are now skipped, but originally were for:

(03) [[American Samoa]], (07) [[Canal Zone]], (14) [[Guam]], (43) [[Puerto Rico]], and (52) [[Virgin Islands]]. This caused a lot of difficulty as certain bureaus and agencies would have employees who could not quickly sort these territorial areas out. Thus, all (save for the Canal Zone, now part of Panama) were reassigned new numbers in the >60 range.

[[Category:Geocodes]]