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Why do you show City X in County/Province Y, when its really in County/Province Z?

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Why do you show City X in County/Province Y, when its really in County/Province Z?

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When we started the database, we didnt know a lot about the smaller political subdivisions of most of the countries we ended up adding to the database. We use Atlases and on-line resources to attempt to place the communities in the areas where they belong, but our background is not in political geography, so were likely to make errors. Sometimes really egregious errors. If weve made an error, let us know and well do our best to fix it. (Were amazed at how much geography weve learned over the years of keeping up the site and were not too proud to admit that we still have a lot to learn!) An added wrinkle to the problem is the tendency in the U.K. to change the boundaries of its counties. We use a 1985 Hammond World Atlas that lists the counties in England somewhat differently from the current actual set up. For example, the Atlas shows Avon as a county, but not Middlesex. We understand that what was once Avon no longer exists in the political organization of England, but Middlesex is a

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