st: Re: political geography

[Christopher F Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

On Aug 4, 2004, at 2:33 AM, a geographer wrote:

> You need an evaluation:
>
> local name = country1[`y']
>
> This assumes that no length limits bite.
> The longest country name I can think
> of, with a little help from
> a database, is 30 characters, e.g.
>
> Federated States of Micronesia
   Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
> Anyone beat that?
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