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[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Technically called "Côte d'Ivoire" I believe.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 day ago

La francaise saves the day.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

By that logic, most of those countries' official names don't start with I, so the map is still wrong whichever way you do it.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

No, just don't apply the official names to all of the rest, only the outlier we want to ignore. It's the scientific method.