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Common Names

Open jae-lee opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

Slightly related to this: https://github.com/deactivated/python-iso3166/issues/17

It would be great to see some sort of common name for the countries as well, e.g., "South Korea" for "Korea, Republic of".

jae-lee avatar Nov 12 '19 18:11 jae-lee

I'm open to this sort of thing, however I don't think these names should be chosen ad hoc. Do you know of a recognized standard that defines common names?

deactivated avatar Dec 13 '19 06:12 deactivated

I noticed 'UK' and 'United Kingdom' give KeyError because the ISO country code is 'GB'a and the name itself is 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' but I am using this library to cross-reference locations mentioned in United Nations documents and the UK is listed there along with the US. It might be helpful to add 'UK' or 'United Kingdom' or both.

SidraEffendi avatar Feb 17 '23 00:02 SidraEffendi