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Kazakhstan capital name is back to Astana #569

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mbugert opened this issue Sep 17, 2022 · 4 comments · Fixed by #571
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Kazakhstan capital name is back to Astana #569

mbugert opened this issue Sep 17, 2022 · 4 comments · Fixed by #571
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mbugert commented Sep 17, 2022

The 2019 name change of the Kazakh capital (from Astana to Nur-Sultan) is being reverted.

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horwitz commented Sep 17, 2022

any chance the name change hasn't happened quite yet?

Presidential spokesman Ruslan Zheldibai said on September 13 that the move will be added to a bill of amendments to the constitution currently under preparation.

(from here)

(and even if it hasn't happened just yet, this is (IMO) good to track!)

@axelboc axelboc added the content Content changes, map improvements, translation fixes, etc. label Sep 17, 2022
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axelboc commented Sep 17, 2022

The Wikipedia page has already been renamed 👀

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aplaice commented Sep 23, 2022

Great, quick catch — thanks!

I'd wait a couple of months in case Nazarbeyev's faction regains some power, and then make the change, to avoid back-and-forth.


Once we do, I think that this is a case where it'd be worth having the full date range for the previous capital name (something like: "Briefly renamed to Nur-Sultan (2019-2022)."?). (cf. #545.)

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I've made a PR for this issue here: #571
I didn't notice this issue until after so I wasn't aware of your suggestion, @aplaice.
I went with the solution with minimal change Known as Nur-Sultan until September 2022. instead of Known as Astana until March 2019.
That way I was hopefully able to fix it for all the languages, though I had to remove the name of the month.

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