Issue on Special Administrative Regions

[MarkLee425]

SARs like Hong Kong and Macau should be a state or a city instead of country. But at the same time, it has a different phonecode, currency, currency_name, currency_symbol, emoji and emojiU.

So it is hard to be injected into state since it will lose the details.
Let me know if there are any better ways to solve it. Thanks.

P.S.: China does admit that Hong Kong is a part of China. So apart from the political voices, technically it is a part of China. Same as Macau.

[dosubot]

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To accurately represent Special Administrative Regions (SARs) like Hong Kong and Macau without losing important details, you can treat them as distinct entities within your system. This approach allows you to maintain their unique attributes such as phone code, currency, currency name, currency symbol, emoji, and emojiU, while still acknowledging their status as part of China.

For example, in the countries-states-cities-database, Hong Kong is represented with its own set of attributes, including its ISO codes, phone code, currency details, and more. This ensures that all necessary information is preserved:

- id: <unique_id_for_hong_kong>
  name: Hong Kong
  iso3: HKG
  iso2: HK
  numeric_code: '344'
  phonecode: '852'
  capital: Hong Kong
  currency: HKD
  currency_name: 'Hong Kong dollar'
  currency_symbol: $
  tld: .hk
  native: 香港
  region: Asia
  region_id: 3
  subregion: 'Eastern Asia'
  subregion_id: 12
  nationality: 'Hong Kong, Hong Kongese'
  timezones:
    - zoneName: Asia/Hong_Kong
      gmtOffset: 28800
      gmtOffsetName: 'UTC+08:00'
      abbreviation: HKT
      tzName: 'Hong Kong Time'
  translations:
    ko: 홍콩
    pt-BR: 'Hong Kong'
    pt: 'Hong Kong'
    nl: Hongkong
    hr: 'Hong Kong'
    fa: هنگ‌کنگ
    de: 'Hong Kong'
    es: 'Hong Kong'
    fr: 'Hong Kong'
    ja: 香港
    it: 'Hong Kong'
    zh-CN: 中国香港
    tr: 'Hong Kong'
    ru: 'Гонконг С.А.Р.'
    uk: 'Гонконг САР.'
    pl: 'Hongkong S.A.R.'
  latitude: '22.25000000'
  longitude: '114.16666666'
  emoji: 🇭🇰
  emojiU: 'U+1F1ED U+1F1F0'

This method allows you to maintain the integrity of the data while respecting the political and administrative context ^[1].

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