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bigstrat2003 14 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The UN challenges five centuries of cartography

He doesn't even have the power to unilaterally declare what the US calls it. Names of geographic features are established by popular usage, not governments.

inemesitaffia 14 days ago [–]

>established by popular usage, not governments.

This is straight up wrong.

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