What's New?

1. Updates have been made to the GNS. For more information, please refer to GNS Updates - October 2012 (October 2012)



2. Update 9 to Geopolitical Entities and Codes (Formerly FIPS PUB 10-4) and updated complete listings of Geopolitical Entities and Codes (Formerly FIPS PUB 10-4) (PDF and XLSX versions) have been posted (September 2012)



3. A new Gazetteer of Undersea Features has been posted (July 2012)



4. Update 8 to Geopolitical Entities and Codes (Formerly FIPS PUB 10-4), updated complete listings of Geopolitical Entities and Codes (Formerly FIPS PUB 10-4) (PDF and XLSX versions), and a new Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty Quick Reference Guide have been posted (May 2012)



5. A new Geographic Names Standardization Policy has been posted for China (April 2011)



6. A new Kurdish Romanization policy has been posted (April 2012)



7. Updated ACUF proposal forms have been posted in Excel and PDF formats



8. ACUF membership information updated. Two new members have been added (Mr. John McDonough, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Ms. Julie Conklin, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management)



9. GNS offers subscription to GeoNames RSS feeds. The GeoNames RSS feeds can be accessed through the GNS Search - Text Based Page. The feeds, at this time, alert to the total number of changed rows of data based on subscribed country(ies), but do not identify those changed rows. Future implementations will introduce GeoRSS.



10. Update 6 to Geopolitical Entities and Codes (Formerly FIPS PUB 10-4), updated complete listings of Geopolitical Entities and Codes (Formerly FIPS PUB 10-4) (PDF and XLSX versions), and a new Independent States Quick Reference Guide have been posted (November 2011)



11. Update 5 to Geopolitical Entities and Codes (Formerly FIPS PUB 10-4), updated complete listings of Geopolitical Entities and Codes (Formerly FIPS PUB 10-4) (PDF and XLSX versions), and a new Independent States Quick Reference Guide have been posted (August 2011)



12. On July 9, 2011 the U.S. Department of State, on behalf of the U.S. Government, granted full diplomatic recognition of South Sudan (short form)/Republic of South Sudan (long form). The country code ‘OD” has been assigned to South Sudan for users of FIPS 10-4. (July 2011)

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