Editing List of FIPS country codes (section)

==Resources==
*{{Include-USGov
|agency=National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
|article=Independent States
|url=http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/QRIND31AUG2011.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111211105041/http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/QRIND31AUG2011.pdf |archive-date=2011-12-11 |url-status=live
|accessdate=2011-09-10}} 
*{{Include-USGov
|agency=National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
|article=Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty
|url=http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/QRDEP30NOV.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812230415/http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/QRDEP30NOV.pdf |archive-date=2011-08-12 |url-status=live|accessdate=2010-12-08}}

The complete standard can be found at:
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090201000438/http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip10-4.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20090201000438/http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip10-4.htm]

Updates to previous version of the standard (before FIPS-10 was withdrawn in September 2008) are at:
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070106052615/http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/fips_files.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20070106052615/http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/fips_files.htm].

Updates to the standard since September 2008 are at:
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110903191340/http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/gazetteers2.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110903191340/http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/gazetteers2.html].
* FIPS PUB 10-4: Federal Information Processing Standard 10-4: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20101121211606/http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/FIPS10-4_match.pdf Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions]'', April 1995
* DAFIF 0413, Edition 7, Amendment No. 3, November 2003
* DIA 65-18: Defense Intelligence Agency, ''Geopolitical Data Elements and Related Features'', 1994