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Harmonize country conversion

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Description

While dealing with Tanzania modelling, we realized that country harmonization shall be improved.
In the GEO database Tanzania is named "United Republic of Tanzania", which leads to conflicts.
We may provide a fix for that.

Moreover, when checking the dependencies both pycountry and country_converter are used, which is redundant.
The latter seems more capable to handle alternative naming conventions and may be recommended

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No files or tests are named. Start by locating the country-conversion logic and dependency declarations, then reproduce the Tanzania naming conflict using the GEO data. Done means Tanzania names are harmonized consistently and the dependency choice is resolved without redundant country libraries.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
data
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
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