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stateNamesFips: State Names (abbrevated and full) and US State FIPS codes.

Description

stateNamesFips database of the USA state FIPS codes, and the associated full and abbreviated state names.

Usage

stateNamesFips

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 51 observations of the following 2 variables.
fips
a numeric vector, 2 digit state FIPS code.
ab
a character vector, 2 character State Abbreviation (postal code)

Source

NIST - Federal Information Processing Standards

Details

stateNamesFips dataset provides a table to permit the translation of FIPS codes, abbreviated state name (2 characters), and full state names in the stateMicromap function. Although the FIPS codes cover territories and other areas, only the FIPS codes for the 50 states and DC are included in this dataset.

References

NIST FIPS 6-4 Standards