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June, 2010

Changes affecting status:

1. North Korea: Two cities merged with the surrounding provinces.
2. United Kingdom: Changes to the administrative counties and unitary authorities.

Other data added:

The U.S. government standard FIPS PUB 10-4 has been decommissioned, but there is a new document performing the same function: "Geopolitical Entities and Codes". The countries affected by changes therein are Belgium, Burundi, Ecuador, Georgia, Ireland, Macedonia, Montenegro, Senegal, Tunisia, Uganda, and Yemen.

1. Cameroon: Added estimated population 2001.
2. Netherlands Antilles: Added 2001 census results.
3. Solomon Islands: Added 1999 census results.
4. Turks and Caicos Islands: Added 2001 census results.
5. United Kingdom: Fixed a longstanding error: two English counties omitted from the 1974 table.

Secondary subdivisions:

1. Solomon Islands: Added the list of wards.
2. United Kingdom: Some districts consolidated.

Changes to site:

Removed dead links from the alphabetical index pages. Link rot is pervasive. There were over 300 dead links over a period of about 3-5 years, and many of them had been "official" websites. I also reversed the columns in the Newsletter table, since most people will be clicking on the most recent months.