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Antarctica wrongly listed as country #902

Open mtsfer opened 1 week ago

mtsfer commented 1 week ago

It should be a subregion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica

dosubot[bot] commented 1 week ago

Antarctica is currently represented as a country in the countries-states-cities-database. It is listed with its ISO codes, phone code, currency details, top-level domain, native name, region, multiple timezones, and geographical coordinates, but it does not have a capital or states listed [1][2][3]. The classification of regions like Antarctica is addressed in the documentation, where it is classified under the "Polar" region [4].

There is no specific documentation or comments in the codebase that explain the decision to classify Antarctica as a country rather than a subregion, nor are there any historical or geographical notes justifying this classification [4].

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