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<p>On 2019-11-19 16:40, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Not all languages make, or care about making, a distinction of France (including non-Europe) and France (only Europe).</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><br />This is not a question of language. They are different concepts, and irrespective of the language you are speaking, it must be possible to distinguish between the two. Of course it is possible that you need more than two words for one or the other, using more descriptive terminology instead of an accepted Proper Noun.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">If a language doesn't have a term for "Metropolitan France" then there shouldn't be a name:xx in OSM.</div>
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