Feature Catalog for the 2024 State and Equivalent Entities for United States Cartographic Boundary File States and Equivalent Entities 2025-05 2025-05 eng; USA utf8 U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division 301-763-1128 301-763-4710 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400 Washington DC 20233-7400 United States geo.geography@census.gov pointOfContact cb_2024_us_state_5m.shp State and Equivalent Entities (national) false STATEFP Current state Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 38-2009), Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) - States/State Equivalents STATENS Current state Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) code INCITS 446:2008 (Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)), Identifying Attributes for Named Physical and Cultural Geographic Features (Except Roads and Highways) of the United States, Its Territories, Outlying Areas, and Freely Associated Areas, and the Waters of the Same to the Limit of the Twelve-Mile Statutory Zone GEOIDFQ American FactFinder summary level code + geovariant code + '00US' + GEOID Fully Qualified GEOID GEOID State identifier; state FIPS code National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 38-2009), Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) - States/State Equivalents STUSPS Current United States Postal Service state abbreviation Publication 28 - Postal Addressing Standards NAME Current State name National Standard Codes (ANSI INCITS 38-2009), Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) - States/State Equivalents LSAD Current legal/statistical area description code for state 00 Blank ALAND Current land area (square meters) 0 9,999,999,999,999 AWATER Current water area (square meters) 0 9,999,999,999,999