Some places start with 'Province', others do not

[sanderr]

User dandoen reports:

If I want to look up members in The Netherlands via ​http://www.bewelcome.org/places/NL I find that most names of the provinces start with the word 'Province', while three of them don't. Can that be adjusted?

[shevek]

What's the desired output? With 'province' or without?

The update for browse countries I'm currently working on will address this as a side effect. Therefore I assign the ticket to myself.

[sanderr]

The desired output is without 'province'.

[shevek]

The data used comes from geonames.org. For English the resulting set contains 5 provinces that do not include province.

If you choose the Dutch language with the new implementation no 'Provincie' will be visible.

[sanderr]

Do you take the column 'name of subdivision' from ​http://www.geonames.org/NL/administrative-division-netherlands.html? I guess the 'type' of subdivision was used in the old implementation.

[shevek]

This would be covered by the move to geonames therefore it will likelöy not happen for 1.3. Removing milestone.

[shevek]

Should be fixed while updating the geonames database.

[shevek]

Postponed to 1.10.

[sitatara]

Geonames update yielded the following results for the Netherlands: The word Province is no longer part of the regions' names in Dutch but remains part of some provinces name in other languages.