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Separating Hong Kong from China on the geomap
I know this sounds political, but after a failed discussion and being personal attacked on Discord, I feel the need to bring this up as an issue on Github.
As this issue is similar to #77 in the opposite way, it is often confused and hard to obtain data from the city of Hong Kong. And since Taiwan has its own map then I think Hong Kong should have one too.
my point still stands, displaying individual cities is stupid.
I also fail how pointing out the egoistical nature of this request is a personal attack, but oh well.
As you see in #77 bStats is using ISO 3166-1, in that list Hong Kong is separated from China, plus I cannot find Berlin or Madrid individually exists on that list, but Hong Kong does.
And please play nice, this is a sensitive topic for locals yet sound ridiculous to foreigners, I hope you can understand that I am taking this seriously.
I agree, since Hong Kong is included in the ISO 3166-1 standard, there's no reason why it shouldn't be on bStats as a seperate country. Will try to make a PR soon:tm:
Let me preface this by saying I absolutely don't care if you end up splitting HK from China or not. It probably makes sense, given its size and autonomy.
All I wanted to mention was that deciding whether to list a country/territory based on the existence of an abbreviation in ISO-3166-1 doesn't make sense. The goal of the standard is to provide a standard set of abbreviations for countries and territories; it's not a political whitelist of any sort. For instance, there is no official code for Kosovo, whereas abbreviations have been defined for Guam, Greenland and Puerto Rico.
Edit: What about Macao?
The standard allows us to have some sort of idea as to what to include. Yes, we know it's not perfect, but it allows us to not get involed into political issues too much
Then why not separating Sofia from Bulgaria? Or Belgrade from Serbia ? Or Skopije from North Macedonia ? Hong Kong is in China and it wont be separated.
I just can't believe the conversation still persist derailing from the comply of ISO-3166-1. Just FYI @MrIvanPlays, Hong Kong has it's autonomy that is high enough to get into ISO-3166-1. Perhaps it's time for you to stick with the facts and standards that existed for decades.
BTW I agree @ljacqu with Macao, but I'm kinda busy and being arrested, so can't make a PR.
I'm going to lock this issue, as I don't want to have any political discussions going on here.
bStats should use the ISO-3166-1standard. If it does not follow the standard at some places, I will happily merge any PR that fixes these deviations.