What is there to understand? A US State is a US State--they are not further subdivided as States, only as counties. North and South Dakota, North and South Carolina are all separate States. The subdivisions are counties, parishes (Louisiana only ) or judicial districts (Alaska)--consider them all counties. I have no idea what AK South Central is, other than a county.
The only unique is the District of Columbia--Washington, DC--a federal district. Hawaii or Hawai'i is a single State. The apostrophes reflect the pronuniciation in the Hawaiian language. Honolulu is the State capital. The main islands are counties. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave Sharred Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 2:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Dx4win] Country names and states Interesting that the country is shown as "Hawai'i" ; yet one of the states is shown as Hawaii. But I can live with this! When it comes to HI states; I have only ever deciphered Honolulu and Maui; there always seems to be a lack of decent info on QSl's to determine which state they count for (and I think for WAS, the info is supposed to be on the card !) AK is even worse. All I see on cards is "nth line judicial district) , or some other; and it is impossible to tie down the state (I only ever managed to tie down KL7CYL to AK South Central; no others ! I know it's not a DX4Win database problem, but if there was a way to help us understand this stuff..... 73 Dave G3NKC // MD4K _______________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
