Statoid
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A statoid is a major administrative division of a state, as defined by Gwillim Law in Administrative Subdivisions of Countries ISBN 0-7864-0729-8. The division of the entire land area of the world up into disjoint named areas is possible if national sovereignty is used as a basis.
A system of Hierarchical Administrative Subdivision Codes has been created due to perceived deficiencies in the FIPS and ISO 3166 standards. These perceived deficiencies were listed as:
- * outdated
- * FIPS and ISO codes cover the primary subdivision level but fail to encode secondary and lower subdivisions
- * Not mnemonic (FIPS)
- * ISOs represent the names of divisions not their territory, have an irregular format, and are not always unique.
The statoid with the largest territorial area is the Sakha Republic, a federal subject of the Russian Federation, with 3,103,200 square kilometres (1,198,150 square miles).
The most densely populated statoid is Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, with 564,700 living in 11 square kilometres (4.25 square miles) with a density of 51,336 people per square kilometre (132,960 per square mile).
The least densely populated statoid is Avannaa, a county of Greenland, with 843 people living in 106,700 square kilometres (41,200 square miles) with a density of 0.0079 people per square kilometre (0.0205 per square mile).
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