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				<title>Admin2 codes of some Russian Districts</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi,
i am new to GeoNames, so i am sorry if this topic is discussed before.
(i looked the messages of past couple of years, to be sure)

During working on a HyperSQL import, i have noiced that some ADM2 codes are just the names of the place.
As a software architect i think this redundancy is not a good idea.
Especially places with special/reserved characters in their names could be real problematic in some scenarios.
Why do those places not have codes like the rest of Russia?
(like RU.73.463834)

Thanks in advance and congratulations for the great job
Karaca

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RU.73.Zelenodol'skiy Rayon	Zelenodol’skiy Rayon	Zelenodol'skiy Rayon	463834
RU.73.Zainskiy Rayon	Zainskiy Rayon	Zainskiy Rayon	465542
RU.73.Yelabuzhskiy Rayon	Yelabuzhskiy Rayon	Yelabuzhskiy Rayon	468080
RU.73.Vysokogorskiy Rayon	Vysokogorskiy Rayon	Vysokogorskiy Rayon	470163
RU.73.Verkhneuslonskiy Rayon	Verkhneuslonskiy Rayon	Verkhneuslonskiy Rayon	475457
RU.17.Untsukul'skiy Rayon	Untsukul’skiy Rayon	Untsukul'skiy Rayon	478962
RU.73.Tukayevskiy Rayon	Tukayevskiy Rayon	Tukayevskiy Rayon	480620
RU.17.Tsumadinskiy Rayon	Tsumadinskiy Rayon	Tsumadinskiy Rayon	480804
RU.17.Shamil'skiy Rayon	Shamil’skiy Rayon	Shamil'skiy Rayon	490031
RU.12.Shelkovskiy Rayon	Shelkovskiy Rayon	Shelkovskiy Rayon	494999
RU.12.Shalinskiy Rayon	Shalinskiy Rayon	Shalinskiy Rayon	495940
RU.73.Sarmanovskiy Rayon	Sarmanovskiy Rayon	Sarmanovskiy Rayon	498536
RU.73.Sabinskiy Rayon	Sabinskiy Rayon	Sabinskiy Rayon	499665
RU.73.Rybno-Slobodskiy Rayon	Rybno-Slobodskiy Rayon	Rybno-Slobodskiy Rayon	499980
RU.73.Pestrechinskiy Rayon	Pestrechinskiy Rayon	Pestrechinskiy Rayon	510344
RU.73.Nurlatskiy Rayon	Nurlatskiy Rayon	Nurlatskiy Rayon	515836
RU.12.Nozhay-Yurtovskiy Rayon	Nozhay-Yurtovskiy Rayon	Nozhay-Yurtovskiy Rayon	516779
RU.17.Novolakskiy Rayon	Novolakskiy Rayon	Novolakskiy Rayon	518649
RU.73.Nizhnekamskiy Rayon	Nizhnekamskiy Rayon	Nizhnekamskiy Rayon	521116
RU.19.Nazranovskiy Rayon	Nazranovskiy Rayon	Nazranovskiy Rayon	523063
RU.12.Naurskiy Rayon	Naurskiy Rayon	Naurskiy Rayon	523209
RU.12.Nadterechnyy Rayon	Nadterechnyy Rayon	Nadterechnyy Rayon	523654
RU.73.Muslyumovskiy Rayon	Muslyumovskiy Rayon	Muslyumovskiy Rayon	524181
RU.73.Menzelinskiy Rayon	Menzelinskiy Rayon	Menzelinskiy Rayon	527526
RU.73.Mamadyshskiy Rayon	Mamadyshskiy Rayon	Mamadyshskiy Rayon	529705
RU.19.Malgobekskiy Rayon	Malgobekskiy Rayon	Malgobekskiy Rayon	531127
...
RU.73.Kamsko-Ust'inskiy Rayon	Kamsko-Ust’inskiy Rayon	Kamsko-Ust'inskiy Rayon	553346
RU.17.Gergebil'skiy Rayon	Gergebil’skiy Rayon	Gergebil'skiy Rayon	561559
RU.17.Gunibskiy Rayon	Gunibskiy Rayon	Gunibskiy Rayon	557977
RU.17.Gumbetovskiy Rayon	Gumbetovskiy Rayon	Gumbetovskiy Rayon	558024
RU.12.Gudermesskiy Rayon	Gudermesskiy Rayon	Gudermesskiy Rayon	558115
...
RU.73.Chistopol'skiy Rayon	Chistopol’skiy Rayon	Chistopol'skiy Rayon	567985
...
RU.73.Bugul'minskiy Rayon	Bugul’minskiy Rayon	Bugul'minskiy Rayon	571167
RU.73.Al'met'yevskiy Rayon	Al’met’yevskiy Rayon	Al'met'yevskiy Rayon	582431
RU.73.Al'keyevskiy Rayon	Al’keyevskiy Rayon	Al'keyevskiy Rayon	582497
RU.73.Gorod Kazan'	Gorod Kazan’	Gorod Kazan'	862913
RU.73.Gorod Al'met'yevsk	Gorod Al’met’yevsk	Gorod Al'met'yevsk	862920

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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:48:13]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[ thanks. An anomaly in some input data file, I will change it to the geonameid.

Marc]]></description>
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