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I wish Europe (EU) could be selected as a common entity. The continents as well.

Would increase the data maintenance requirements from ~0 to >0 since the EU grows and shrinks every so often

Since 1973 there have been 9 changes to EU borders (in 1973, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1995, 2004, 2007, 2013 and 2020)

Since 1973, at least 69 sovereign states have been created or altered! That's not even counting states that have had multiple changes to their territory in that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_da... -> sort by date of latest territorial change

I guess I should’ve learnt by now that no project - done right - is truly easy

I wish people learnt that (a) European Union is not Europe, and (b) Europe is a continent.

Europe is a relatively small and arbritrarily-defined part of Eurasia.

Geologically or geographically, there are 7 continents:

Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Eurasia, North America, South America, and the mostly-sunken Zealandia.

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