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GENC

Acronym for Geopolitical Entities, Names and Codes, which is the United StatesGovernment profile of the ISO 3166 standards. This reflects the United States (U.S.)Government requirement to use names of countries, dependencies, areas of specialsovereignty, and administrative subdivisions that have been approved by the U.S. Boardon Geographic Names (BGN), the authority established under Public Laws 80-242 toprovide for uniformity in geographic nomenclature and orthography throughout theFederal Government. GENC is available at https://nsgreg.nga.mil/genc/registers.jsp

Committee

Interdisciplinary

Date Added to Lexicon

06/12/2023

Standard Source (Designation Number Title of Standard. Publisher, Place, Year.)

ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 Update:2015 Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial & Other Biometric Information. ANSI/National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2011. Source link