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[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago

By that logic, most of those countries' official names don't start with I, so the map is still wrong whichever way you do it.

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

No, just don't apply the official names to all of the rest, only the outlier we want to ignore. It's the scientific method.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 days ago

Not really. That's their official English name. Same as when Czechia renamed itself from Czech Republic. Both aren't the name in the Czech language, but a country can still change their English name.

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