> On Jul 5, 2022, at 1:51 AM, Otto Moerbeek <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 05:44:33PM -0400, Daniel Dickman wrote:
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>>> On Sun, 3 Jul 2022, Daniel Dickman wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 9:26 PM Ben Fuller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I noticed Montenegro doesn't have an entry. Presumably this file hasn't
>>>> been updated since before 2006!
>>>
>>> These files could use a big overhaul and are very dated.
>>>
>>> In the below, make sure to keep the file sorted.
>>>
>>> In the Europe file there are other issues. For example I think
>>> Macedonia is now North Macedonia, etc.
>>>
>>> There are many issues in the other files. For example africa doesn't
>>> have Eswatini, etc, etc.
>>>
>>> Do you want to take a stab at doing a bigger update of the 4 quiz
>>> files? africa, america, europe, asia?
>>>
>>
>> I had some time on my hand and took a stab on this. A few notes:
>>
>> Added multiple capitals for countries with more than one capital city that
>> were missing these:
>> - Eswatini
>> - South Africa
>> - Malaysia
>> - Sri Lanka
>>
>> Removed duplicate entries:
>> - Turkey: remove from europe, keep in asia
>> - Georgia: remove from europe, keep in asia
>
> Both are debatable. Certainly Instanbul is in Europe.
> Many view Georgia as European.
Agree it’s debatable. Agree that politically they may be closer to Europe. But
here I followed a geographical classification.
>
>>
>> For the above I followed this wikipedia classification:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_continent
>
> Which list both Georgia and Turkey as European (and Turkey also as
> Asian).
The tables do, but there is also text in the article which says.
“Transcontinental countries in Europe and Asia, classified as West Asian
countries by the United Nations Statistics Division: Azerbaijan, Georgia,
Kazakhstan, and Turkey (all but Kazakhstan are members of the Council of
Europe).”
And this is what I followed. We can keep the duplicates though. I don’t feel
very strongly about this.
>
>> africa:
>> - removed Dahomey as the the pre-1975 name for Benin; it's been close to
>> 50 years since the rename.
>> - updated Swaziland -> Eswatini. I left Swaziland since Eswatini rename
>> happened in 2018. So going by the Benin example, seems like when we get
>> closer to 50 years from the rename we can drop the old name
>> - added "The" as an optional prefix for Gambia
>> - removed "Republic of" from South Africa for consistency with other
>> countries which don't generally include the formal prefix as part of the
>> name.
>>
>> americas:
>> - added many missing countries
>> - added "The" as an optional prefix for Bahamas
>> - added missing suffix of "City" from many capitals like Guatemala,
>> Mexico, and Panama
>>
>> asia:
>> - added many missing countries in Oceania (like New Zealand, Fiji, etc)
>> - added UAE in addition to United Arab Emirates
>>
>> europe:
>> - added Montenegro
>> - added Vatican City
>> - renamed Macedonia to North Macedonia
>> - Yugoslavia -> Serbia
>>
>> I also looked at NetBSD a bit and noticed they added a lot of territories
>> and their capitals, but I decided not to add those in this update.
>>
>> I also noticed NetBSD removed The Hague as a capital of The Netherlands,
>> but I disagree with that. Maybe some of the Dutch folks on this mailing
>> list can weigh in which is right.
>
> The Dutch constitiution defines Amsterdam as the capital. The Hague
> only is the seat of gorvernment.
Thanks for confirming.
