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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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Türkiye for Turkey? #22

Closed rg02kg closed 1 year ago

rg02kg commented 2 years ago

Recently Turkey has requested its English name to be changed to Türkiye in the UN, should we change that or does it need more discussion?

PacoPando commented 2 years ago

I believe this needs more discussion and indeed a different approach, such as using a dual language system in referring to countries (English/Local language). I believe that going for local language for countries get us in a slippery territory. For a start, the umlaut is not a diacritic in the English language, then if "Türkiye" why not "España", or "المغرب"? I think a dual name system would be much more stable, usable and accepted.

rg02kg commented 2 years ago

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/2/un-registers-turkiye-as-new-country-name-for-turkey

"Türkiye" is not a local name it is now the official English name used in the UN, which is normally the official name globally used

PacoPando commented 1 year ago

After some consultation we agree with rg02kg (whoever she or he is ;-) proposal, and propose a name change for units TUE, TUR, TUE-00 and TUR-00

rg02kg commented 1 year ago

rg02kg is Rafael Govaerts, dept.2, Kew Gardens

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