Hello! According to Wikipedia the biggest city of Crimea is not Simferopol (2014 population: 332,317 [1]), because Sevastopol is a larger one (2016 population: 418,987 [2]). According to "Crimea" article, Sevastopol indeed is the biggest city of Crimea [3]. Is there any reason why the Crimea zone name is Europe/Simferopol and there is neither Europe/Sevastopol zone nor a symlink. Cheers, Ilya D. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simferopol [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevastopol [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea
Ilya Dogolazky wrote:
Is there any reason why the Crimea zone name is Europe/Simferopol
Sources differ as to which is the larger city. For example, the Black Sea Encyclopedia (2014) says of Crimea (p. 61) "The largest city is Simferopol", and goes on to list Sevastopol, Kerch, etc. as other major cities. I vaguely recall a similar situation in the 1990s when the zone was created, though I didn't write my sources down. In situations like this we tend to pick a city somewhat arbitrarily and stick with it. Rome vs Milan comes to mind. There are no links for Milan, Delhi, Beijing, etc., so Sevastopol is in good company.
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