GeoNames Forum

I took a look at the GeoNames Country Statistic (http://www.geonames.org/statistics/) and noticed the United Kingdom has few names than countries like North Korea and Myanmar. Does anyone have any explanation as to why this is the case?

Thanks!

The reason is very simple. The UK government and administration does not release any geographical data for free. So we have to use other sources, among them the US army and as you can easily imagine the US army is more interested in other countries than the UK.
If you are from the UK and want to change this, then contact your political representatives and make them understand that it would only be beneficial to their country to release more geographical data. The government is having all the data but does not make it available. It is ridiculous that they don't release data like the location of villages and the boundary of admin divisions. Unfortunately the UK is not alone, most European countries are following the same policy.

Best

Marc