Hi Anash,

I checked two of the adGroups that received Serbia and Montenegro 
statistics today and they are both created in 2011, so, no, they are not 
too old. If you need, I could provide in private you the exact adGroup ID 
and even the response XML we received? 

On Thursday, March 29, 2012 1:02:18 PM UTC+3, Anash P. Oommen wrote:
>
> Hi Veseo,
>
> Just wondering, how old is this adGroup? By any chance, was the adGroup 
> created before Serbia and Montenegro split into 2 different countries?
>
> Anash P. Oommen,
> AdWords API Advisor.
>
> On Thursday, 22 March 2012 13:25:48 UTC+5:30, veseo wrote:
>>
>> Why is the country codes list VERY old? We keep receiving statistics from 
>> Serbia and Montenegro and after a quick check in Wikipedia, this country 
>> does not exist since 2006. I think you know that sometimes precise 
>> targeting is needed and receiving statistics that an event (click or 
>> impression, doesn't matter) occured "in either Serbia or Montenegro" is not 
>> much more precise than "somewhere in Eastern Europe". I think 6 years and 
>> at least 5 new API versions, one of which was a MAJOR overhaul of the whole 
>> API, are more than enough to update AT LEAST the results you're returning. 
>> We got the region codes, that we've been waiting for for 2 years, from 
>> somewhere else, but receiving "Serbia and Montenegro" as country and 
>> "Unspecified" for both City and Region - we can't do anything to understand 
>> where exactly does the event come from.
>>
>> Here's an example of such "precise" stats report:
>>
>> <row adGroupID='xxx' countryTerritory='Serbia and Montenegro' 
>> city='Unspecified City' region='Unspecified Region' clicks='0' 
>> impressions='1'/>
>>
>

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