Why is North Macedonia still Macedonia on the map?

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Why haven’t you changed the name of the country to North Macedonia? The bilateral agreement between Greece and it’s northern neighbour happened in 2018.

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I see North Macedonia on the map. At what map are you looking at? Can you post a link?

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https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=8/41.714/22.687

Thanks

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and there you see Северна Македонија (and not Македонија as you may think) which is the Macedonian name for North Macedonia. What is the problem?

Ah, I see. Two layers (Cycle Map and Transport) show Macedonia instead of North Macedonia.

You should contact Thunderforest/Andy Allen about that.

E.g. normally an English map would look like this with OSM data used: Worldmap online | Interactive Map in English based on OpenStreetMap data | osMap

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The place to edit the name of the country is here https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/53293 It’s North Macedonia in most languages, but there are quite a few where it still needs to be updated. Maybe your language is one of them, @George_Meachim ?

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@Andy_Allan does you map rendering prefer short_name over name for country labels?

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Thank you. My language is Greek but what I see on the map is the Cyrillic alphabet (I think). So it needs to be updated in that language.

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So you mean the main layer? But this has “Северна” (in Macedonian cyrillic as you say) as part of the name and that is “Severna” = “North”. The name is just written over two lines. First line: Северна and second line: Македонија, together= Северна Македонија = Severna Makedonjia = North Macedonia.

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Adding a screenshot to confirm this:
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@George_Meachim is this what you are referring to? If so then as @Spiekerooger says, it already includes the word North (in Macedonian). But maybe you are talking about something different?

(Note that you can just copy/paste a screenshot into your post in this forum if it helps).

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No, that was what I was talking about. Apologies about that. I thought that first word was just the name Macedonia but in a different language.
Thank you for looking into this.

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