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While we are complaining about this, can we all agree that using plain <select> for country is an anti pattern. There should be a fuzzy search.

So many times I have to search for my country under

United Kingdom

UK

Britain

Great Britain

England

Only to find that it was “Great Britain” but collated in the B’s amongst Bhutan and Belgium, etc.



> So many times I have to search for my country under [...]

It's even better when you have to explain this specific oddity in a foreign language.

Try politely explaining to a German consular official that they probably need to look in their system's drop-down box under 'V' for 'Vereinigtes* Königreich' [UK] (instead of 'E' for 'England' or indeed 'G' for 'Großbritannien' [GB]) as they are attempting to enter passport details...

* 'United', in German...




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