Country list in WordPress – what is it?
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I would like to know what the ‘country’ list represents in the WordPress stats. Many of the places listed are not countries. Is there a full list available? How are decisions made on what to include?
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The following support page has more information on the stats you are referring to:
Let us know if you have any more questions.
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I looked at that before posting. It doesn’t answer the question. the nearest list i could find is the ISO 3166-1 country list on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 but even this has some different country names to those used by WordPress. The list is certainly not a list of sovereign countries.
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If possible, send me a screenshot, so I can better understand the issue. You can simply upload the screenshot to your Media Library, like any other image, and I’ll be able to access it from there.
The page at the following link has some helpful tips for taking screenshots:
Once you give me some additional clarification, I will be more than happy to continue addressing your issue.
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Hi I’ve uploaded a screenshot to http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/whiteknightsbiodiversity/?attachment_id=9501
However I’m not sure how this helps with the question I asked.
What I asked was:
1) I would like to know what the ‘country’ list represents in the WordPress stats? – clearly it is not a list of countries in the conventional sense as it includes islands such as Jersey and Guernsey which are part of the United Kingdom.
2) Many of the places listed are not countries. Is there a full list available? – I had assumed there might be a web page listing all the areas WordPress treat as ‘countries’.
3) How are decisions made on what to include? – for instance what was the decision making process that resulted in Guernsey and Jersey (among many others) being treated as ‘countries’I hope that helps clarify the situation?
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Does this answer your questions?
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/total-list-of-countries-wp-tracks?replies=3#post-1149543 -
So for Q1 – the answer is the list of ISO3166-2 areas
Q2 – the WordPress list is based on ISO3166-2 but does not use the same name for all the areas so I assume that has been modified by someone somewhere?
Q3 – It was not a decision by WordPress but was made by the comittee that agreed the ISO3166-2 standardsSo yes, it answers most of the questions. It just doesn’t tell me why some of the WordPress area names are different from the ISO standard names. I can live without that information as it seems too difficult to answer.
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I’m sorry for any confusion, but I don’t fully understand where you’re seeing the non-standard country names? In the screenshot you’ve shared, only standard country names are visible.
I don’t believe we store a canonical list of country names anywhere, the country information appearing in stats is pulled from whatever country is associated with a reader’s IP address, using Google’s IP-to-country database.
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