There were certain decisions made to specifically deviate from what had developed organically. These are the exception.
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Hawke@lemmy.world 2 days agoNobody sat down and made a decision to handle country names the way we do.
This is clearly false. There was a definite point at which it was decided to call Burma Myanmar, or at a more local level Peking to Beijing.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 days ago
aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 1 day ago
Those were decisions to change the specific names of specific places, not a decision to handle country names in the general way OP was describing.