North Korea is not recognized as a state by a few countries, but if I told you that there was a server there in Pyongyang, I doubt the location would be ambiguo

North Korea is not recognized as a state by a few countries, but if I told you that there was a server there in Pyongyang, I doubt the location would be ambiguous. The point of this system is to provide a rough location, not an exact one. If you cared about an exact location, you'd just include latitude and longitude. But that's not useful for compute availability purposes, since you likely care far more about the laws of the state that it's housed in and the connections it has to nearby metropolitan areas. A pile of numbers does nothing to help you remember where your VM is.