anki-geo/ultimate-geography v5.0 on GitHub

👉 Upgrade instructions 👈

If you use a translated version of the deck (i.e. any language other than English), please read the upgrade instructions carefully! You will need to check a few things to make sure that you can upgrade safely.

Additionally, the removal of the European Union's capital (see below) leads to the removal of two cards from the deck. After upgrading, open Anki, go to the Tools menu, and select Empty Cards.... The dialog that opens should indicate that two cards are now empty and can be removed. Click Delete to confirm their removal.

New notes with maps 🗺️ #388 #386

Following the introduction of the new inclusion rules for seas and straits in v4.1, this release brings no fewer than 9 new seas to the deck. Shout out to @aplaice for making the beautiful maps and upstreaming them to Wikimedia! 🙌

Multi-language support

After upgrading to this release, you will be able to install multiple translated versions of the deck within the same Anki profile.

This was already possible, except for a couple of language combinations: English+Norwegian and Spanish+French. These deck combinations were problematic because they shared the same sets of note identifiers (GUIDs), which meant that the decks would overwrite each other on import.

To avoid surprises, we decided to resolve this situation by making sure that every deck has its own set of unique note identifiers. We did this by regenerating the GUIDs of the French and Norwegian decks. If you use one of these decks and don't want to lose your progress, you will need to run a debug console script in Anki before upgrading to v5.0. This procedure is explained in details in the upgrade instructions on the wiki.

Country names, capitals and supplementary info

👉 Change capital of Palestine from Ramallah to Jerusalem #389 #409
👉 [DE] Change Swasiland to Eswatini and update country info #428
👉 [FR] Change capital of Palau from Melekeok to Ngerulmud #342 #416 #435
👉 [NB] Change capital of Kazakhstan from Astana to Nursultan #416 #435
⛑️ [NL] Fix numerous typos in country and capital names #433
⛑️ [RU] Fix numerous mistranslations of countries and capitals #443 #444 #452 #457 #465
⛑️ [SW] Fix capital of Russia: Bukarest → Moskva #421
🗑️ Remove capital and capital info for the European Union #438 #440
Mention future capital of Equatorial Guinea, Ciudad de la Paz, in Capital info field #406 #446
Add capital info and hints to both Palestine and Israel now that they share the same capital #389 #409
Add missing full stops to some country and capital info #384 #383
[DE] Fix grammar in capital info of Hong Kong #424
[DE] Move alternative spelling of capital of Burkina Faso to Capital info field: Ouagadougou (Wagadugu) → Ouagadougou #416 #435
[ES] Remove honorary capital of Montenegro from Capital field: Podgorica, Cetiña → Podgorica #416 #435
[ES] Fix minor typos in Country info field #449
[NB] Remove alternative capital and capital info for Tuvalu: Vaiaku/Funafuti → Funafuti #416 #435
[NB] Remove alternative name for capital of Finland from Capital field: Helsingfors (Helsinki) → Helsingfors #416 #435
[NB] Clarify origin of alternative name of Finland's capital in Capital info field #435
[NB] Remove parens in capital names of Chile and Colombia #416 #435
[NL] Re-order capitals of South Africa for consistency with other languages #416 #435

Maps 🗺️

Improve map of Bali by adding small world map and making it stylistically consistent with other maps #425 #466
Update map of Baltic Sea to follow IHO 2002 draft by notably including Kattegat and the Danish straits #434
Bring more sea maps in line with IHO boundaries: White Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, Gulf of Carpentaria, Gulf of California, East Siberian Sea, Tasman Sea #445 #468
Improve maps of Micronesia and Polynesia by insetting their boundaries slightly #455 #462

Flag similarities 🎏

Add flag similarities for Russia/Slovakia/Slovenia and Palestine/SADR #429 #473
Make flag similarities between Sudan and Palestine more descriptive #404 #432
[DE/ES/FR/RU] Fix typos in country names in Flag similarity field #470

Other changes

Rewrite installation and upgrade docs and document customisation scenarios in README #403 #398
Make English Wikipedia the source of truth for capitals across languages to reduce inconsistencies and ease maintenance #416 #435
Improve contributor's guide #397
Document writing style guidelines, notably the use of full stops in some fields but not others #384 #383
Review prioritisation of translation sources for Norwegian deck #417 #422
Upstream remaining sea maps to Wikimedia and update sources.csv #445 #468
Upgrade Brain Brew to v0.3.2 and add task to generate GUIDs for new notes automatically #401
Remove requirements.txt, use pipenv in CI, and add build script to Pipfile to allow building the deck with pipenv run build #413 #414

Contributors 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Big thanks to all the awesome people who contributed to this release, notably @aplaice, @zserghei, @ohare93, @josealberto4444, @x51mon, @jamesnelmore, @lennardnl, @Vages, @emiham, @axelboc, as well as everyone who contributed through issues and discussions!