Kazakhstan capital name is back to Astana

[mbugert]

The 2019 name change of the Kazakh capital (from Astana to Nur-Sultan) is being reverted.

Sources:

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/14/kazakhstan-to-change-name-of-capital-from-nur-sultan-back-to-astana
• https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/hauptstadt-kasachstans-hauptstadt-soll-wieder-astana-heissen-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-220916-99-785163

[horwitz]

any chance the name change hasn't happened quite yet?

Presidential spokesman Ruslan Zheldibai said on September 13 that the move will be added to a bill of amendments to the constitution currently under preparation.

(from here)

(and even if it hasn't happened just yet, this is (IMO) good to track!)

[axelboc]

The Wikipedia page has already been renamed 👀

[aplaice]

Great, quick catch — thanks!

I'd wait a couple of months in case Nazarbeyev's faction regains some power, and then make the change, to avoid back-and-forth.

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Once we do, I think that this is a case where it'd be worth having the full date range for the previous capital name (something like: "Briefly renamed to Nur-Sultan (2019-2022)."?). (cf. #545.)

[KentGrigo]

I've made a PR for this issue here: https://github.com/anki-geo/ultimate-geography/pull/571 I didn't notice this issue until after so I wasn't aware of your suggestion, @aplaice. I went with the solution with minimal change Known as Nur-Sultan until September 2022. instead of Known as Astana until March 2019. That way I was hopefully able to fix it for all the languages, though I had to remove the name of the month.