Heaven forfend! How can you even BEGIN to compare Indonesia's flag to Poland's? Poland's obviously incorporates so much more visual interest, historical context, and artistic skill, while capturing the essence of all her people, their long political trials and humanitarian struggles, and their importance on the modern world stage. Seriously – Indonesia just looks like they slapped theirs together in like five minutes!
be as it may, the quiz is in English so I would think the English spelling/name would be the deciding factor. In English, it's not called the "Coast of Ivory", it's "Ivory Coast". That being said, I agree that it should not be on there.
I'm getting a little over this. The country, in English, is OFFICIALLY known as 'the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire'. Even in English, 'Ivory Coast' is only used by the elderly who know no better (probably still say Burma and Siam) and those who choose stubbornness over education.
Lots of countries have official names that they want other countries to use. For example, the UN refers to Bolivia as "The Plurinational State of Bolivia". Brunei is "Brunei Darussalam" and Laos is "Lao People’s Democratic Republic". It's honestly a bit silly. You really wouldn't like it if we consistently applied the official names. So instead we consistently apply the colloquial names.
I didn't change Swaziland right away. But in the end, Swaziland didn't have a lot of sticking power and most people were using Eswatini so I changed it. Not the case for Ivory Coast. In any case, these objections are a little annoying. It's impossible to create a consistent naming system that will satisfy everyone.
Really... it is côte d'ivoir in english, ivory coast is just the translation. You dont call costa rica rich coast do you..? It really should not be on this quiz. I get that you cant please everyone and someone is always gonna complain. But for that reason you might as wel do it the right way. (As for using the argument, people never use this name but they did with other countries.. i totally disagree, only on this site I ve seen some people prefering ivory coast so saying cote d'ivoire is not commonly in use is silly.
I mean we're not asking you to call if "The Republic of Côte d'Ivoire" we're just saying that they have officially requested to be called Cote d'Ivoire in ALL languages. not based off of the translations.
Fun fact: the Ivory Coast was so named because it was colonized entirely by Irish people, whose bright, opalesque skin so contrasted with those of the people in neighboring countries that the region came to be known as the Nid d'Irlandais or Plage Laiteuse, and then later Côte d'Ivoire.
I used to work next to a row of flags of all countries, in alphabetical order. I always liked to see the flags of Israel and Iran peacefully next to each other.
True, but not in the Netherlands, where I live. Iraq and Ireland are written as 'Irak' and 'Ierland', so the sequence was Ierland-(...)-Irak-Iran-Israel.
perhaps make a gray box with ivory coast in it? I saw the explanation for why ivory coast doesn't work, but it confused me until I read it and I thought it would be helpful to insert the gray box
It's not a french-language website (unless you're on french obviously), but that doesn't change the fact that its name in English is Côte d'Ivoire, not Ivory Coast as it used to be.
I don't really consider it as Ivory Coast because on most places in jetpunk, it is mainly referred to as Cote D'ivoire. Took me a while but I got them all
Tradition isn't always correct: The gov. of Cote d'Ivoire has requested formally to be referred to as Côte d'Ivoire in all languages, regardless of translations.
I'm not going to bother reading the discussion about the Ivory Coast / Côte d'Ivoire above, I'm going to wade in with my own opinion even though it's just repeating what's already been said.
- Random Indian called SomeoneSomewhere
Now, what was my opinion again?