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A set of geographic areas (named entities and boundaries) that provides a mapping between natural biogeographic and common administrative entities.
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Change Czechoslovakia to Czech Republic-Slovakia #20

Closed rg02kg closed 2 years ago

rg02kg commented 3 years ago

Czechoslovakia no longer exists, there are a number of options here, Ideally they should be 2 new level 3 regions, but that may be disruptive.

PacoPando commented 3 years ago

Czechoslovakia is not in existence since 1993. The constitution of Slovakia and the Czech Republic was acknowledged in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD-2, 2001), and I do not think we should change that, and keep maintaining Slovakia and the Czech Republic as level 4 units, as is the case with other countries such as Belgium, Luxembourg or the Baltic Republics, for instance