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QUESTION: What are FIPS codes?

ANSWER: FIPS stands for "Federal Information Processing Standards." FIPS codes are a standardized set of numeric or alphabetic codes issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to ensure uniform identification of geographic entities through all federal government agencies. The entities covered include: states and statistically equivalent entities, counties and statistically equivalent entities, named populated and related location entities (such as places and county subdivisions), and American Indian and Alaska Native areas.

The U.S. Census Bureau uses FIPS codes. Some software that standardizes and enhances name-and-address data also uses FIPS codes. For example, the GeoCoder Object software offered by our company can append FIPS codes to name-and-address records.

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