Why is it that caches in Northern Ireland don't count as UK?

Question

Hi,

I found some caches in Ireland and also some in Northern Ireland (Derry, to be precise). I was expecting to get credit for finding caches in the UK, but no country souvenir and no map entry. How come?
I'm aware that this is not a Project GC problem, it's the same in the Geocaching map, but I thought you might know.

Answer 1

Project-GC mirrors the countries of Geocaching.com and since they've chosen to have the whole island of Ireland as one country Project-GC has to do the same. You can read about Geocaching.com's reasoning here: http://https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=92&pgid=98

Comments

Very strange, especially as this is not consistent with the maps. But thanks for the explanation!

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Shouldn't the country be called GB instead of UK then?

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@Vosoni As I said, Project-GC mirrors the countries (and country names) of Geocaching.com. You can take this up with Geocaching HQ via the official forums.