Quote Originally Posted by Dayo View Post
Hi Wilt,

The UK is a special case as the Home Countries listed are indeed the next step down from the Union and other countries do not have that set up.

So, for the UK, the local counties would be listed instead of the Home Countries ... or just leave out the UK and let people use the list you linked for instance.
Whichever the case, this is a one off, UK specific, quirk which can be managed ... just like no other country has constituent parts represented in FIFA for instance.
I just looked at the geonames.org list you linked to and noticed that most non-US countries in that list have "numbers" for their representative province/state/regions, instead of the official 2-char ISO codes for those said divisions. Do they have another list that uses the actual ISO zone codes?