Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:16:13 +0200 From: Oscar van Vlijmen <o.van.vlijmen@tip.nl>
The same can be said for Viet Nam: Saigon is larger, but capital Ha Noi would be a more logical choice.
I'd rather stick to the simpler and less-political rule. Admittedly politics cannot be excluded entirely.
Johannesburg has fewer inhabitants (712507) than 'winner' Pretoria (854616), but Pretoria has not been chosen for the tz-database.
But Johannesburg's metropolitan-area population is considerably larger than Pretoria's. I'm not so much worried about the municipal city limits, as by how important the center of population is.
Yes, that's a good source, albeit a partisan one. I'll know that pinyin has finally taken over when we English-speakers normally call the capital of Taiwan "Taibei". (:-) But I suppose I should add "Taibei" and "T'ai-pei" in the comments for Asia/Taipei.