thills
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I'm looking at the RDF XML document for https://sws.geonames.org/6252001. It lists many names for the United States, in many languages, which is good. However, the list of names in English could benefit from the following additions:
<gn:alternateName lang="en">US</gn:alternateName>
<gn:alternateName lang="en">USA</gn:alternateName>
Yes, these are also the ISO 2-letter and 3-letter codes for the country, but they are used in non-coded English texts to refer to the United States.
Note that "USA" is listed as the alternate or official name in several languages, notwithstanding that it's also the 3-letter ISO code.
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