Why do you created a new country for Northmacedonia instead of just renaming it?

Question

As you can see below in my statistic there is Macedonia and North Macedonia now:

Germany: 3865	Vatican City State: 9	Denmark: 2
Austria: 1168	Croatia: 8	Egypt: 1
Poland: 170	Serbia: 8	Greece: 1
Italy: 78	Russia: 7	Tunisia: 1
Hungary: 54	Bosnia and Herzegovina: 5	Dominican Republic: 1
Slovenia: 39	Macedonia: 4	Spain: 1
San Marino: 31	North Macedonia: 4	Turkey: 1
Czechia: 23	Albania: 4
Slovakia: 14	Montenegro: 2

there are now 252 countries instead of just 251, which makes no sense 
because Macedonia and North Macedonia is the same country

Comments

I just add, that the same problem occured also in STATE BADGES of "profile stats"

Answer 1

The name was changed by Geocaching HQ. Right now, some parts of our system use the old name and some parts use the new name. It will fix itself soon once everything has updated.

Comments

It looks like North Macedonia wasn't marked as European country in your system - in my profile map stats it’s there under World but it is missing under Europe..

Answer 2

You may be able to confirm comparing your total find count. Probably the four shown for Macedonia and the four shown for N.M. are the same four in fact so your total count (when adding up countries) should be four too high until everything is back consistent.