More accurately, I suspect it's Aleppo and thus Syria, which is under sanctions by the US and European countries.
Yeah, this is almost certainly some AML provision that has gone amuck, but they'd rather inconvenience you in a silly way to prove that they were "doing their job" than to get themselves shut down due to sanctions.
Aren’t there towns in the US and elsewhere named for towns in other countries? This xenophobia is an albatross.
The people of Aleppo, Pennsylvania must have a lot of fun.
My friend had an account with Isis in the username because she learnt about the Egyptian god in video games. She was panic about that a few years later
That was the original name for what eventually became Google Wallet. It was launched as Isis, then promptly rebranded to Softcard before eventually being bought by Google.