al 65-18, December 1994, published by the
Defense Intelligence Agency

The US Government has not yet adopted a standard for hydrographic codes
similar to the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 10-4 country
codes. The names and limits of the following oceans and seas are not always
directly comparable because of differences in the customers, needs, and
requirements of the individual organizations. Even the number of principal
water bodies varies from organization to organization. Factbook users, for
example, find the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean entries useful, but none
of the following standards include those oceans in their entirety. Nor is
there any provision for combining codes or overcodes to aggregate water
bodies.The recently delimited Southern Ocean is not included.

Principal Oceans and Seas of the World
With Hydrographic Codes by Institution
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_______________________|IHO_23-4th|IHO_23-3rd*|ACIC_M_49-1____|DIAM_65-18
Arctic Ocean___________|9_________|17_________|A______________|5A________
Atlantic Ocean_________|-_________|-__________|-______________|-_________
North Atlantic Ocean___|1_________|23_________|B______________|1A________
South Atlantic Ocean___|4_________|32_________|C______________|2A________
Baltic Sea_____________|2_________|1__________|B26____________|7B________
Indian Ocean___________|5_________|45_________|F______________|6A________
Mediterranean Sea______|3.1_______|28_________|B11____________|-_________
Eastern Mediterranean__|3.1.2_____|28_B_______|-______________|8E________
Western Mediterranean__|3.1.1_____|28_A_______|-______________|8W________
Pacific Ocean__________|-_________|-__________|-______________|-_________
North Pacific Ocean____|7_________|57_________|D______________|3A________
South Pacific Ocean____|8_________|61_________|E______________|4A________
South China and Eastern|6 |49, 48 |D18 plus |3U plus
Archipelagic Seas______|__________|___________|others_________|others____

*The letters after the numbers are subdivisions, not footnotes.

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Appendix F - Cross-Reference List of Geographic Names

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Name |Entry in The World Factbook|Latitude |