Wasn't it warden [Andrew Leach - Maps API Guru] who wrote: >I wasn't justifying it: I was explaining what the UN did. It was >precisely to distinguish between the Greek Macedonia and the >Macedonian Macedonia. There aren't all that many other places where a >province of one country has the same name as a sovereign country >adjacent to it.
The only other such example that I can think of is Congo. Google Maps shows them as "Congo (Brazzaville)" and "Democratic Republic of the Congo". Windows Live Local calls them "Congo" and "Congo (DRC). Yahoo Maps call them "Congo (Brazzaville)" and "Congo (Kinshasa)". They were originally admitted to the UN under the names "Congo (Leopoldville)" and "Congo (Brazzaville)" but now the UN knows them as "Democratic Republic of the Congo" and "Congo, Republic of the". -- http://econym.org.uk/gmap The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
