Ethiopia: Confirmation that Dire Dawa is a separate division.
Iceland: The regions will be considered the primary divisions.
Indonesia: The name of the capital of Sulawesi Selatan has changed from Ujung Pandang to Makassar. It was reported that Aceh province received autonomous status on Monday, 2002-12-09.
Kyrgyzstan: ISO 3166-2 reports that Bishkek city was split from Chüy region.
Jose Gavinha provided me with a list of Portuguese equivalents. Using them, I've made some updates to Afghanistan, Angola, Armenia, Cape Verde, and the errata page.
Secondary divisions:
Benin: Changed status from sub-prefectures to communes; assigned communes to the new departments where they belong.
United States: Broomfield county, Colorado was formed.
Time zones:
Norway: Corrected the time zone from +1:00 to +1:00 D (daylight saving time observed). This was in error ever since I added time zones to the Statoids site.
United States: Made minor corrections not affecting the actual time zone data.