AGS geographic codes for AGS call numbers

000

Universe

010

Solar System

030.1

Inner Planets

030.5

Outer Planets

031

Sun

041

Mercury

042

Venus

043

Pluto

044

Neptune

045

Uranus

046

Saturn

047

Jupiter

048

Mars

049

Moon

050

World

051

Pangea, Gondwana, etc

052

Americas, The

052

Hemisphere, Western

053

Hemisphere, Land

054

Hemisphere, Eastern

055

Hemisphere, Southern

056

Hemisphere, Water

057

Hemisphere, Northern

058

Tropics

060

Polar Regions

061

Arctic (North Polar Region)

070

Antarctica

071

Antarctica (western section)

072

Antarctic Peninsula

075

Antarctica (eastern section)

075

Australian Antarctic Territory

079

Falkland Islands (Malvinas)

079-c

South Sandwich Islands (Traversay Islands)

079-c

South Sandwich Trench

079-c

South Shetland Islands

079-c

South Georgia Islands

080

Balleny Island

100

North America

100.1

Great Lakes

100.1-c

individual Great Lakes, their connecting rivers, etc.

110

Greenland

120

Canada

120-c

Baffin Island (Canada)

120-d

Canada cities (regardless of province)

125

Canadian Arctic (Canada)

129

Atlantic Provinces (Canada)

129

Maritime Provinces (Canada)

130

New Brunswick (Canada)

131

Prince Edward Island (Canada)

132

Nova Scotia (Canada)

133

Newfoundland (Canada)

134

Labrador (Canada)

140

Quebec (Canada)

141

Ontario (Canada)

151

Manitoba (Canada)

153

Alberta (Canada)

154

Saskatchewan (Canada)

160

British Columbia (Canada)

171

Northwest Territories (Canada)

172

Yukon (Canada)

173

Nunavut (Canada)

200

Latin America

210

Mexico

210-c

Baja California (Mexico)

220

Central America

221

Guatemala

222

Honduras

223

Belize

223

British Honduras

224

El Salvador

225

Costa Rica

225-c

Cocos Island

226

Nicaragua

227

Panama

228

Panama Canal Zone

230

West Indies; Caribbean region; Caribbean islands; Antilles (as a whole)

231

Bahamas

231-c

Abaco Island (Bahamas)

231-c

Acklins Island (Bahamas)

231-c

Andros Island (Bahamas)

231-c

Cat Island (Bahamas)

231.1

Great Bahama Submarine Canyon

231.2

Turks Islands

231.3

Caicos Islands

232

Greater Antilles

233

Cuba

234

Hispaniola

235

Haiti

236

Dominican Republic

237

Jamaica

238

Puerto Rico

238.1

Mona Island

238.2

Desecheo Island

238.5

Vieques Island

238.5

Crab Island (Vieques Island)

238.6

Culebra Island

240

Lesser Antilles

240-c

Anguilla Island (Lesser Antilles)

240-c

Aruba

240-c

Bonaire

240.1

Trinidad And Tobago

241

Virgin Islands

243

Cayman Islands

243.1

Grand Cayman Island

243.2

Little Cayman Island

243.3

Cayman Ridge

243.4

Cayman Trench

243.5

Cayman Brac

250

South America

250-c

Amazon Basin (North)

250-c

Tierra Del Fuego (South)

251

Argentina

252

Bolivia

253

Brazil

254

Chile

255

Colombia

256

Ecuador

260

Guianas

261

Guyana (British Guiana)

262

French Guiana

263

Surinam (Dutch Guiana)

264

Paraguay

265

Peru

266

Uruguay

267

Venezuela

300

Africa

310

Morocco

311

Western Sahara (Spanish Sahara)

311.1

Ifni

312

Algeria

313

Tunisia

313.1

Qerqenah Islands

314

Sahara Desert

315

Libya

316

Egypt

316.1

Sinai

317

Sudan

318

South Sudan (post-2011)

320

French West Africa

321

Mauritania

322

Senegal

323

Gambia

324

Guinea

324.1

Guinea Bissau

325

Sierra Leone

326

Liberia

327

Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)

328

Ghana (formerly Gold Coast)

329

Togo

330

Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta)

331

Mali

332

Niger

333

Benin

334

Nigeria

335

Cameroon

336

Chad (Tchad)

337

Central African Republic

338

Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) (formerly French Congo)

339

Africa, French Speaking Equatorial (Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville), and Gabon collectively)

341

Equatorial Guinea (formerly Spanish Guinea)

341.1

Bioko

341.1

Fernando Poo Island

341.5

Rio Muni

342

Gabon

343

Cabinda

345

Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo, formerly Zaire, formerly Belgian Congo)

348

Angola

351

Ethiopia, Abyssinia

351.1

Eritrea

352

Somalia

352.1

Djibouti

353

Kenya

354

Uganda

355

Ruanda-Urundi

355.1

Rwanda

355.2

Burundi

357

Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika)

359

Zanzibar

360

Rhodesia; Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland; pre-1966 only

361

Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia)

362

Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia)

363

Malawi (formerly Nyasaland)

365

Botswana

368

Mozambique

370

South Africa

372

Namibia

374

Swaziland

375

Lesotho (formerly Basutoland)

380

Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Republic)

400

Asia

401

Middle East

403

Cyprus

410

Turkey

410-c

Anatolia (Turkey)

410.5

Dardanelles

410.6

Bosporus (Karadeniz Bogazi)

411

Syria

411-c

Golan Heights (Part Of Syria)

412

Lebanon

413

Palestine (pre-1948)

413.1

Jerusalem

413.2

Israel

413.5

Palestinian National Authority (Gaza Strip/West Bank)

414

Jordan

415

Iraq (Mesopotamia)

416

Arabian Peninsula

416.1

Saudi Arabia

417

Yemen (formerly Hadramaut)

418

Aden (colony & protectorate) (southern Yemen)

418.1

Federation Of South Arabia

418.2

Hadramaut (coastal arid plain stretching from Yemen to Oman )

419

Oman (formerly Muscat and Oman)

419.1

United Arab Emirates (formerly Trucial States or Trucial Oman)

420

Qatar

421

Bahrain

422

Kuwait

423

Iran

424

Afghanistan

425

Pakistan

425.1

Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan)

426

Jammu and Kashmir

430

India

435

Nepal

436

Sikkim

437

Bhutan

438

Myanmar (Burma)

439

Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon)

440

Malaya (Malaya Peninsula)

440.5

Malaysia

440.9

Singapore

441

Indochina or Southeast Asia (Including Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam And western Malaysia)

442

Thailand

443

Vietnam

444

Laos

445

Cambodia

450

Indonesia (Greater Sunda Islands)

451

Celebes (also Sulawesi)

452

Sumatra

453

Java (Djawa)

454

Lesser Sunda Islands

454.1

Macao (Heungshan)

454.2

Timor Island

454.21

West Timor (formerly Dutch Timor)

454.22

East Timor (Timor Leste, formerly Portuguese Timor)

455

Borneo

455.1

Sabah (North Borneo)

455.2

Brunei

455.3

Sarawak

455.4

Kalimantan

456

Maluku Islands (Moluccas, formerly Spice Islands)

456-c

Halmahera (island)

456-c

Seram (island, formerly Ceram)

457

Philippines

457.1

Luzon Island

457.2

Mindoro Island

457.8

Mindanao Island

459

Far East

460

China

460.1

Hainan Island

460.2

Spratly Islands

461.9

Hong Kong

462

463

Mongolia

464

Manchuria

467

Tibet

468

Taiwan (formerly Formosa)

468.1

Penghu

469

Korean Peninsula

469

Chosen (Korea)

469.1

North Korea

469.2

South Korea

470

Japan

481

Caucasus Mts./Transcaucasia/Caucasia

482

Georgian

482.1

Abkhazia

482.2

Adjara

483

Armenia

484

Azerbaijan

484.1

Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic

484.3

Caspian Sea

485

Kazakhstan

485.1

Karakalpakstan

486

Turkmenistan

487

Uzbekistan

488

Tajikistan

489

Kyrgyzstan

490

Siberia

493

Sakha (Yakutia)

494.1

Buryatia

494.2

Tuva

494.9

Central Asia

499

Sakhalin (Island east Of Russia)

500

Australasia (Australia, Asia, Pacific Islands)

501

New Guinea (entire island)

501.4

Papua New Guinea

510

Australia

511

Queensland (Australia)

512

New South Wales (Australia)

513

Australian Capital Territory

514

Victoria (Australia)

515

South Australia

516

Northern Territory (Australia)

517

Western Australia

520

Tasmania (Australia)

530

New Zealand

530.1

North Island (New Zealand)

530.2

South Island (New Zealand)

531.1

Kermadec Islands

531.2

Stewart Island (New Zealand)

531.3

Chatham Islands (New Zealand)

531.5

Bounty Islands

531.6

Antipodes Islands

531.7

Campbell Island

531.8

Auckland Islands

600

Europe

600-c

Carpathian Mountains

600.1

Central Europe

600.2

Eastern Europe

600.3

Northern Europe

600.4

Southern Europe

600.5

Western Europe

601

Eurasia

610

Scandinavia

610.1

Lapland

611

Norway

612

Sweden

612.1

Gotland Island

613

Finland

614

Denmark

614.5

Bornholm Island

615

Iceland

615.2

Vestmannaejar Islands

620

British Isles

621

Great Britain/United Kingdom

621-d

Not used: class in individual countries

622

England

622.2

Isle of Man

623

Wales

624

Scotland

624.1

Shetland Islands

624.2

Orkney Islands

624.3

Hebrides

624.4

Inner Hebrides

624.5

Outer Hebrides

625

Ireland

625.1

Northern Ireland

630

France

630.7

Monaco

630.9

Corsica

631

Benelux/Low Countries

632

Netherlands

633

Belgium

634

Luxembourg

638

Switzerland

639

Liechtenstein

640

Germany

640.8

Helgoland Island

641

Austria

642

Hungary

644

Poland

646

Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia

646.1

Bohemia

646.2

Moravia

647

Slovakia

650

Mediterranean (Sea and region)

650

Biblical/Bible Lands (Mediterranean)

651

Iberian Peninsula (Spain And Portugal)

652

Portugal

653

Spain

653.4

Balearic Islands

653.9

Gibraltar

654

Andorra

655

Italy

655.2

Vatican (Papal State)

655.3

San Marino

656

Sardinia

657

Sicily

658.2

Pantelleria Island

658.4

Pelagic Islands

660

Balkans

662

Yugoslavia

662.1

Slovenia

662.2

Croatia

662.2-c

Dalmatian Islands (Croatia)

662.3

Bosnia-Hercegovina

662.4

Vojvodina

662.5

Serbia

662.5

Serbia And Montenegro (country)

662.6

Montenegro

662.7

Kosovo

662.8

Macedonia (FYROM; former Yugoslav republic)

662.9

Adriatic Islands

663

Bulgaria

664

Albania

665

Greece

665-c

Macedonia (Greek region; not the country)

665.1

Ionian Islands

665.2

Aegean Islands

665.3

Cyclades Islands

665.4

Sporades Islands

665.5

Dodecanese Islands

665.5-c

Rhodes, Rhodus, Rodos, Rhodos (One Of The Dodecanese Islands)

665.6

Crete

666

Romania

670

Soviet Union (USSR)

671

Soviet Union, European portion

671.4

Ural Mountains

675

Russia

675.2

Lipari Islands (Aeolian Islands)

678.1

Bashkortostan (Bashkir ASSR)

678.2

Chuvash Republic (Chuvashia; Chuvash ASSR)

678.3

Kalmykia (Kalmykia ASSR)

678.4

Karelia (Karelian ASSR)

678.5

Komi

678.6

Mari El (Mari ASSR)

678.7

Mordovia (Mordovian ASSR)

678.8

Tatarstan (Tatar ASSR)

678.9

Udmurt Republic (Udmurtia; Udmurt ASSR)

679.1

Chechnya-Ingushetia

679.2

Dagestan

679.3

Kabardino-Balkar (Kabardino-Balkaria ASSR)

679.4

North Ossetia-Alania

680

Baltic States

681

Estonia

682

Latvia

683

Lithuania

685

Belarus (Byelorussia)_

686

Ukraine

687

Moldova (Moldavia)

700

Oceans

710

Atlantic Ocean

711

North Atlantic Ocean

711.1

Norwegian Sea

711.2

Denmark Strait

711.3

Davis Strait

711.4

Gulf of St. Lawrence

711.44

St. Lawrence Seaway

711.5

Gulf of Maine

711.51

Bay of Fundy

711.7

Ungava Bay

711.8

Labrador Sea

712.1

Gulf of Mexico

712.2

Caribbean Sea

712.5

Chesapeake Bay

713.1

Bay of Biscay

713.2

English Channel

713.3

Bristol Channel

713.4

Irish Sea

713.5

North Sea

713.6

Skagerrak

713.7

Kattegat

714

Baltic Sea

714.1

Gulf of Riga

714.2

Gulf of Finland

714.3

Gulf of Bothnia

715

Mediterranean Sea

715.1

Strait of Gibraltar

715.2

Alboran Sea

715.3

Balearic Sea (Iberian Sea)

715.4

Ligurian Sea

715.5

Tyrrhenian Sea

715.6

Ionian Sea

715.7

Adriatic Sea

715.8

Aegean Sea

715.9

Sea of Marmara

716

Black Sea

716.1

Sea of Azov

717

South Atlantic Ocean

717.2

Golfo de San Matias (Argentina)

717.3

Golfo de San Jorge (Argentina)

717.4

Gulf of Guinea

717.5

Drake Passage

717.6

Scotia Sea

717.7

Weddell Sea

721

Atlantic Islands

721.1

Faeroe Islands

722.4

Bermuda Islands

723.2

Azores

723.2-c

Terceira Island

723.2-c

Fayal Island

723.8

English Channel Islands

724.1

Madeira Islands

724.2

Canary Islands

724.3

Cape Verde Islands

725.1

Ascension Island

725.2

St. Helena Island

725.3

Tristan de Cunha Group

725.4

Bouvet Island

725.5

Sao Tome Island

725.6

Principe Island

725.7

Sao Tome & Principe

726.7

Trindade Island (Brazil)

726.8

Martin Vaz Islands (Brazil)

729.3

Malta (Maltese Islands)

729.3-c

Comino Island

730

Indian Ocean

730.1

Mozambique Channel

731.2

Arabian Sea

731.3

Gulf of Aden

731.4

Red Sea

731.5

Gulf of Suez

731.6

Gulf of Aqaba (Gulf of Elat)

731.7

Gulf of Oman

731.8

Persian Gulf

732.1

Gulf of Mannar

732.2

Laccadive Sea

732.3

Bengal, Bay of

732.4

Andaman Sea

732.5

Strait of Malacca

733.1

Java Sea

733.2

Bali Sea

733.3

Savu Sea

733.4

Flores Sea

733.5

Teluk Bone

734.1

Timor Sea

734.2

Joseph Bonaparte Gulf

735.1

Great Australian Bight

735.2

Bass Strait

740

Indian Ocean Islands

741.2

Comoros (Comoros Islands)

741.2-c

Grande Comore

741.2-c

Anjouan

741.2-c

Mayotte

741.2-c

Moheli

741.4

Dahlak Archipelago

741.4-c

Dahlak Kebir

742.1

Kuria Muria Islands (Khuriya Muriya, Jazair)

742.2

Socotra Island (Sokotra, Suqutra)

742.3

Laccadive Islands (Cannanore Islands)

742.3-c

Lakshadweep

742.4

Maldives

742.5

Chagos Archipelago (Oil Islands)

742.5-c

Diego Garcia

742.6

Seychelles

742.6-c

Mahe

742.6-c

Praslin

742.6-c

La Digue

742.6-c

Aldabra Island

742.7

Mascarene Islands

742.7-c

Reunion

742.7-c

Rodriques

742.8

Mauritius

743.3

Amsterdam Island (Île Amsterdam, New Amsterdam, Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises)

743.4

St. Paul Island (Indian Ocean)

743.5

Kerguelen Islands (Desolation Islands)

743.6

Kerguelen-Gaussberg Ridge

743.8

Crozet Islands

743.9

Prince Edward Islands (Indian Ocean)

744.4

Andaman Islands (Andamans)

744.5

Nicobar Islands (Nicobars)

744.6

Cocos Islands (Indian Ocean) (Keeling Islands)

744.7

Christman Island (Indian Ocean)

745.3

St. Peter Island (Indian Ocean)

750

Pacific Ocean

751

North Pacific Ocean

751.1

Gulf of Panama

751.2

Gulf of California, Gulf of

751.3

Canada Pacific Coastal Waters

751.4

Gulf of Alaska

751.5

Bristol Bay

751.6

Aleutian Trench

752.1

Bering Sea

752.2

Bering Strait

752.3

Sea of Okhotsk

752.4

Shelikhov Gulf (Zaliv Shelekhova)

752.5

Gulf of Tartary

752.6

Amurskiy Liman

752.7

Sakhalinskiy Zaliv

753.1

Sea of Japan

753.2

Korea Strait

753.3

East China Sea

753.4

Yellow Sea

753.5

Korea Bay

753.6

Gulf of Chihli

753.7

Taiwan Strait

754.1

South China Sea

754.2

Gulf of Tonkin

754.3

Gulf of Thailand (Gulf of Siam)

755.1

Sulu Sea

755.15

Sulu Archipelago

755.2

Celebes Sea

755.3

Molucca Sea (Laut Maluku or Moluksche Zee)

755.4

Halmahera Sea

755.5

Ceram Sea ( Seram Sea)

755.6

Philippine Sea

756

South Pacific Ocean

756.1

Makassar Strait

756.2

Banda Sea

756.3

Arafura Sea

756.4

Carpentaria, Gulf of

756.5

Torres Strait

756.6

Bismarck Sea

756.7

Solomon Sea

757.1

Coral Sea

757.2

Cook Strait

757.3

Tasman Sea

757.4

Ross Sea

758.2

Amundsen Sea

758.3

Bellingshausen Sea

760

Pacific Islands (Oceania)

761.1

Commander Islands (Komandorskiye Ostrova)

761.2

Kuril Islands

761.2

Chishima Retto (Kuril Islands)

761.8

Midway Islands (formerly Brooks Islands)

762

Hawaiian Islands (formerly Sandwich Islands)

763.1

Ryukyu Islands (Nansei Islands)

763.3

Bonin Islands (Ogasawaro Gunto)

763.5

Volcano Islands (Kazan Retto)

763.7

Marcus Island (Minami Tori Shima)

763.8

Wake Island

764

Micronesia

764.1

Mariana Islands (Marianas) (Formerly Ladrone Islands)

764.1-c

Guam (Mariana Islands)

764.1-c

Saipan (Mariana Islands)

764.1-c

Tinian (Mariana Islands)

764.1-c

Rota (Mariana Islands)

764.1-c

Pagan (Mariana Islands)

764.1-c

Guguan (Mariana Islands)

764.1-c

Agrihan (Mariana Islands)

764.1-c

Aguijan (Mariana Islands)

764.3

Caroline Islands

764.31

Chuuk Islands (Formerly Truk Or Hogolu)

764.32

Palau Islands (Formerly Pelew Or Belau)

764.4

Marshall Islands

764.5

Gilbert Islands

764.6

Tuvalu

764.7

Kiribati

764.8

Nauru

765

Melanesia

765.1

Admiralty Islands

765.2

Bismarck Archipelago

765.24

New Ireland

765.25

New Britain

765.3

Solomon Islands

765.4

Santa Cruz (Pacific Ocean)

765.5

Vanuatu (New Hebrides)

765.6

New Caledonia

765.61

Loyalty Islands

765.66

Norfolk Island

765.7

Fiji Islands

765.8

Tonga

765.91

Chesterfield Islands

766

Polynesia

766.1

Line Islands

766.2

Phoenix Islands

766.3

Tokelau Islands (Formerly Union Islands)

766.4

Samoa Islands (Navigator Islands)

766.4-c

American Samoa

766.5

Cook Islands

766.6

Society Islands

766.6-c

Tahiti

766.7

Tubuai Islands (Austral Islands)

766.8

Tuamotu Archipelago ( Paumotu Or Dangerous Arch)

766.81

Gambier Islands

766.83

Pitcairn Islands

766.9

Marquesas Islands

767.4

Isla del Coco (Pacific Ocean)

767.5

Galapagos Islands (Colon Archipelago)

767.7

Easter Island

768.5

Paracel Islands (including reefs)

770

Arctic Ocean

771.1

Greenland Sea

771.2

Barents Sea

771.3

White Sea

771.4

Kara Sea (Proliv Karskiye Vorota)

771.5

Laptev Sea (More Laptevykh or Nordenskjold Sea)

771.6

East Siberian Sea

771.7

Chukchi Sea

772.1

Beaufort Sea

772.2

Northwest Passage

772.3

Hudson Bay

772.4

James Bay

772.5

Baffin Bay

772.6

Lincoln Sea

772.7

Kane Basin

772.8

Hudson Strait

782.4

Svalbard (Spitsbergen)

782.4-c

Barents Oya (Svalbard)

782.4-c

Stor Oya (Svalbard)

782.5

Bjorn Oya

783.2

Jan Mayen

784.1

Franz Josef Land (Fridt’jof Nansen Land)

784.4

Novaya Zemlya

786.2

Severnaya Zemlya (North Land)

787.2

Novosibirskiye Ostrova (New Siberian Islands)

787.4

Wrangel Island (Ostrov Vrangelya)

790

Antarctic Ocean

800

United States

800-b

U.S. National Parks: 800-b E-Nat Pk (Cutter) (Date)

809

Alabama

810

Alaska

810-c

Shelikof Strait

810-c

Pribilof Islands

810-c

St. Paul Island

810.1

Aleutian Islands

810.1-c

Fox Islands

810.1-c

Islands Of The Four Mountains

810.1-c

Andreanof Islands

810.1-c

Rat Islands

810.1-c

Near Islands

811

Arizona

812

Arkansas

813

California

814

Colorado

820

Connecticut

821

Delaware

822

District Washington, D.C.

823

Florida

824

Georgia

825

Idaho

830

Illinois

831

Indiana

832

Iowa

833

Kansas

834

Kentucky

835

Louisiana

840

Maine

841

Maryland

842

Massachusetts

843

Michigan

844

Minnesota

845

Mississippi

850

Missouri

851

Montana

852

Nebraska

853

Nevada

854

New England

855

New Hampshire

860

New Jersey

861

New Mexico

862

New York

862.1

New York City

862.2

Long Island, New York

862.3

New York Metropolitan Region

863

North Carolina

864

North Dakota; Dakota Territory

870

Ohio

871

Oklahoma

872

Oregon

873

Pennsylvania

874

Rhode Island

875

South Carolina

880

South Dakota

881

Tennessee

881.1

Tennessee Valley Region

882

Texas

883

Utah

884

Vermont

890

Virginia

891

Washington

892

West Virginia

893

Wisconsin

894

Wyoming

990

Non-geographic items (history tables, map reading guides, etc)

999

Imaginary places (fantasy, Middle Earth, Harry Potter, Narnia, Dante’s Hell, etc.)