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It is: "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". If one insists on S.A.R for Hong Kong one must insist on the full official name for GB.

Jony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Kent Karlsson
> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:44 AM
> To: unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: RE: Åland
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> Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
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> > > I don't quite see why the names for this "territory" in many
> > > languages should include "Islands"/"Îles"/etc.
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> > You mean we should stop to say "Island of Great-Britain"
> and just use
> > "Great-Britain"?
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> The English name for the territory code "GB" is "United Kingdom"...
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> /kent k
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