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From time to time, Mozilla products or websites need to include lists of "countries". This page outlines agreed best practice when doing so. | From time to time, Mozilla products or websites need to include lists of "countries". This page outlines agreed best practice when doing so. | ||
The standard Mozilla list of country and region names is the [https://nsgreg.nga.mil/genc/discovery GENC list], maintained by the US Government. There are several good reasons for choosing this list, which was chosen after careful consideration in a discussion on the [https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/toolkit/locales/en-US/chrome/global/regionNames.properties mozilla.governance Forum]. | The standard Mozilla list of country and region names is the [https://nsgreg.nga.mil/genc/discovery GENC list], maintained by the US Government. There are several good reasons for choosing this list, which was chosen after careful consideration in a discussion on the [https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/toolkit/locales/en-US/chrome/global/regionNames.properties mozilla.governance Forum]. There is no perfect list, but using someone else's was considered much preferable to maintaining our own, and it was judged that this one makes acceptable decisions in most of the controversial cases. | ||
So there are just two things you have to do: | So there are just two things you have to do to minimise the amount of geopolitical angst your product or website might cause: | ||
# Never label a field "Country", always label it "Country or Region" (or equivalent in another language). | # Never label a field "Country", always label it "Country or Region" (or equivalent in another language). | ||