And one of my roommates in college, who was in pre-med, thought Miami was west of Mississippi. And he was from Miami. Infinite anecdotes. There was some talk also of making the names as easy as possible to link to without surprising anyone. (and that's still to some extent the convention... Paris, France is still just at [[Paris]]. But I think you're right that it reveals an unintended bias because most of the original contributors were from the States (and most probably still are) (say "St. Petersburg" around my workplace, and probably 1 person out of 100 can tell you about the one in Russia). We should probably disambiguate extensively.
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Dakotas is it that borders Canada?" And I went to a gathering in western North Carolina and made a nametag in the shape of North Carolina. Someone asked me, "Is that a state?"
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