imported from
Region (contiguous United States of America)
The 2nd level administrative regions of Egypt are very confusuing and different sources conflicting. Those in gaz.obo are from GeoHive (http://www.xist.org/default1.aspx) and are not fully in agreement with those from the WHO (the file EGY_SALB_table.xls downloaded from http://www.who.int/whosis/database/gis/salb/salb_coding.aspx#DATA).
South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands
Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Heard Island and McDonald Islands Territory
ISO3166-2 codes for 2009 revision of admin. units seem not to have been assigned.
populated place, Republic of South Africa
populated place, contiguous United States of America
Territoire des Terres australes et antarctiques francaises
Villages and Cities from SALB; divided into communities from http://www.armstat.am/en/?nid=52.
When an authorative list of Divisions of the new (2007) Districts is available this needs revision.
Geographically the western regions of Kazakhstan may be in Europe.
The provinces are under reorganization, this list is part new part old. See: http://www.statoids.com/ucd.html
populated place, Democratic Republic of Congo
populated place, Central African Republic
populated place, Palestinian Territories
North East Pacific Ocean coastal waters of Central America and Columbia
Northwest Atlantic Ocean coastal waters of Canada
begin_date: 1943-11-29. end_date: 1991-06-25. Previous to 1943: Kingdom of Yugoslavia, begins_in: 1918-12-01; end_date: 1941-04_17.
Northeast Atlantic Ocean coastal waters of Africa
Northwest Atlantic Ocean coastal waters of Barbados
Northwest Atlantic Ocean coastal waters of Bermuda
Western Indian Ocean coastal waters of Southern Africa and Madagascar
Northwest Atlantic Ocean coastal waters of Greenland