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A small fix for Cities in Argentina #648

Open jcporcel opened 11 months ago

jcporcel commented 11 months ago

There is a very understandable error in the list of cities of 2 states in the country of "Argentina"

The problems:

The current list of cities for "Buenos Aires Province" are:

These "cities" are more like neighborhoods and they belong to the state named "Autonomous City of Buenos Aires" which is a VERY small city-state with an area of about 250 square kilometers.

The cities (actual cities with tens of thousands of inhabitants) that do belong to the state "Buenos Aires Province" (a normal state with a area of about 307,000 square kilometers) are the following:

(Source of this list: https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Argentina-2056026)

fk00750 commented 11 months ago

Hey @dr5hn can you assign me this issue ?

LeandroBarone commented 10 months ago

+1 to this bug report, came to say exactly the same.

A little more information: the region "Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires" should NOT include the cities currently listed for the region "Buenos Aires Province" (Balvanera, Barracas, Belgrano, etc.), those are neighborhoods and have no autonomous government. Instead, it should include a single city, also called "Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires".

The region "Buenos Aires Province" should include these cities:

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Ciudades_de_la_provincia_de_Buenos_Aires