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				<title>ISO Country Names</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ The country names listed in the file countryInfo.txt aren't ISO 3166-1 (official short names in English).  Are these names coming from some other standard?  I find 27 differences:  (the left hand column comes from countryInfo.txt and the right hand column comes from the ISO website, http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma)

 Aland Islands           | Åland Islands
 Brunei                  | Brunei Darussalam
 Congo (Kinshasa)        | Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
 Congo (Brazzaville)     | Congo
 Ivory Coast             | Côte d'Ivoire
 Falkland Islands        | Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
 Micronesia              | Micronesia, Federated States of
 Hong Kong S.A.R., China | Hong Kong
 Iran                    | Iran, Islamic Republic of
 North Korea             | Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
 South Korea             | Korea, Republic of
 Laos                    | Lao People's Democratic Republic
 Libya                   | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
 Moldova                 | Moldova, Republic of
 Macedonia               | Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
 Macao S.A.R., China     | Macao
 Palestinian Territory   | Palestinian Territory, Occupied
 Reunion                 | Réunion
 Russia                  | Russian Federation
 Syria                   | Syrian Arab Republic
 East Timor              | Timor-Leste
 Taiwan                  | Taiwan, Province of China
 Tanzania                | Tanzania, United Republic of
 Vatican                 | Holy See (Vatican City State)
 British Virgin Islands  | Virgin Islands, British
 U.S. Virgin Islands     | Virgin Islands, U.S.
 Vietnam                 | Viet Nam


Thank you for considering this matter.  

Regards,
 
Dan
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:43:02]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:ISO Country Names</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi Dan

Geonames is using a lot of sources to support place names in over 200 languages.
Among the sources are iso, nga, wikipedia, geonames contributors, the UN or unicode.
Unicode is an important source for country names :

http://unicode.org/
http://unicode.org/cldr/repository/common/main/en.xml?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/xml

Cheers

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:23:19]]> GMT</pubDate>
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