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January, 2005

Other data added:

1. American Samoa: chose more official names for two districts.
2. Cyprus: news about Akrotiri and Dhekelia (see also Country Codes).
3. Guam: added 2000 census.
4. Monaco: added 2000 census.
5. Northern Mariana Islands: added 2000 census.

Secondary divisions:

1. Germany: four more districts merged.

Site design changes:

Added text from the book "Administrative Subdivisions of Countries" to country listings for Moldova, Monaco, Montserrat, and Northern Mariana Islands.

On a trip to Japan and China, I observed a problem with the display of Statoid pages on computers set up for CJK characters. Accented (Latin-1) characters were being interpreted as the first byte of a two-byte character, and displayed as Chinese or Japanese. I inserted a meta tag into every page, specifying that the character set for the Statoids pages is ISO-8859-1. I'm not able to test whether it made any difference. Your comments would be appreciated.