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found a bug: Australia links to American Samoa in 2025 archive.

• stephen_g 7mo ago
  Yes I noticed that too, and clicking on Austria takes you to Australia instead! (AU instead of AT which is Austria's country code) Then when you actually are in Australia, if you click back to 2001 or earlier it changes to 'Ashmore and Cartier Islands'
  • MilkMp 7mo ago
    Will fix. Thank you! Most likely a grouping problem due to the MasterCountry ID.
  • MilkMp 7mo ago
    Hi there, I have located the root and sent out a bug fix. Root cause: The CIA World Factbook, published by the Central Intelligence Agency, uses the U.S. Government's FIPS 10-4 country codes, which differ from the ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 codes used by the rest of the world. Of the 281 entities in our database, 173 have different FIPS and ISO codes. Our lookups matched FIPS codes first, so when codes collided between the two systems, the wrong country was loaded. Fixed all 13 queries and 6 templates to always prefer ISO over FIPS. Examples fixed: Australia (ISO=AU) was loading American Samoa (FIPS=AQ, but Australia's FIPS=AS collides with American Samoa's ISO=AS) Singapore (ISO=SG) was loading Senegal (FIPS=SG) Germany (ISO=DE) was loading Gambia (FIPS=GM = Germany's FIPS, ISO=GM = Gambia) Bahamas (ISO=BS) was loading Burkina Faso (FIPS=BF = Bahamas' FIPS, ISO=BF = Burkina Faso)
• gbennett71 7mo ago
  Confirmed, affects multiple years' data