Forzyy says:
The list of countries derive from ISO 3166-1. If your country isn't listed there, pick the one you're in or a sub-country of.
i've been on holiday, so back to the
argument(s) discussion(s):
they weren't the British riots, they were the English riots,
on the
census, the biggest way that the government gets data you have to
select english, welsh, scottish, british etc. etc. why would you select a country if they are all the same?
oh, and finally -
forzyy says:
E.g 'Northern Ireland' isn't a country according to the specification, so pick 'Ireland' instead.
Northern Ireland is in the united kingdom - and
definatly not Ireland. - hell of a lot of people would be offended by that.
... says:
As well all Americans could say they're from Texas, NY and Germans they are from Bayern and so on... I think this system with the flags of main countries is good.
a country is completely different from a state...
at the world football cup you don't have the California team, and the new mexico team. You have the U.S.A. team, in the same way you don't have the great Britain team, but you have the English, welsh, Scottish, Northern Ireland teams...