March, 2005
Changes affecting status:
- Turkey: province name change; possible future
provinces. Added 1990 and 2000 census populations.
Other data added:
- Afghanistan: added to change history.
- Aruba: possible division into regions.
- Belarus: added to change history.
- Canada: added to change history.
- Ecuador: added NUTE codes.
- Denmark: reorganization coming in 2007.
- Liberia: added to change history.
- Mongolia: possible move of capital.
- Palestine: added country overview.
- Peru: added NUTE codes.
- South Africa: name of executive capital is changing.
- Spain: fixed Portuguese names of divisions.
- Ukraine: added postal codes.
Secondary divisions:
- Belarus: added districts.
- Ecuador: added NUTE codes.
- Finland: updated municipalities, added their populations
and areas.
- Peru: added NUTE codes.
- Spain: changed some province names.
- Ukraine: added postal codes.
Site design changes:
Continued adding postal code information.
Ensured that the sections of each article (e.g. Primary subdivisions, Change history) are
in a consistent sequence.
Added text from the book "Administrative Subdivisions of Countries" to country listings for
British Virgin Islands, Serbia and Montenegro,
Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland,
Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand,
Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago,
Tunisia, Turks and Caicos Islands,
Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab
Emirates, United Kingdom, United States,
United States Minor Outlying Islands, U.S. Virgin
Islands, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu,
Vatican City, Venezuela, Wallis
and Futuna, Western Sahara, and Zambia. The
entire book has now been adapted to the format of the website.
Time zones:
- Kazakhstan: abolished daylight saving time.