User talk:Sri Imperator Maharaja

"Independent and Sovereign" in Kiribati's longform name

The "Independent and Sovereign" does not form a part of Kiribati's longform official name, and was probably carried over into there by unreliable sources that incorrectly read a proclamation which capitalized the words (i.e. "[...]shall henceforth be the Independent and Sovereign Republic of Kiribati[...]" instead of "[...]shall henceforth be the independent and sovereign Republic of Kiribati[...]"). I have no idea how reliable archontology.org is, or where they got the "Independent and Sovereign" part from, but worldstatesmen.org has been listed as an unreliable source. In any case, actually reliable sources - the EU's Institutional Style Guide and the United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database (UNTERM) - list Kiribati's longform name as just the "Republic of Kiribati", without an "Independent and Sovereign", as does the cover of Kiribatian passports. Glide08 (talk) 13:28, 9 May 2024 (UTC)