· v2.3.1
Cities read as themselves, not the provinces named for them
- Map
- Cities and places
- Data and accuracy
Each city on the map is matched to its record by name, and where a province, a state or a building shared the name and was better known, the city read that instead - its article, its founding, even its end. The match now always prefers the city, and the population table's own misplacements are corrected one by one, each with its reason.
- Akita, Kursk, Oaxaca, Sokoto, Hamadan, Banda and some eighty more cities read their own article rather than their prefecture's, oblast's, state's, province's or district's, and Chihuahua, Indianapolis and Providence no longer begin in the year their state was made.
- Berlin no longer ends in 1950: it had been read as the Berlin Palace, demolished that year. Singapore, Bucharest, Bangkok, Pyongyang, Ulaanbaatar and Ugarit read their own articles where they had read a hospital, a railway station, a hotel, a military university, a book fair and an alphabet.
- Khersones - Chersonesus, the Byzantine city by Sevastopol that the Rus' chronicles call Korsun - is on the map from its founding to its last mention in 1396, with the population of 800 and 1000 that had been drawn at Kherson; Kherson stands from its founding in 1778.
- Yekaterinburg carries Soviet Sverdlovsk's population of 1950 and 1975, which had been drawn at the small Ukrainian town of the same name.
- Thirteen cities the population table had put at the middle of their province, or on another town, stand where they were: Old Goa, Old Banten, Mrauk U, Kilwa Kisiwani, Birnin Kebbi, Jilin City, Bihar Sharif, Dharwad, and Isanapura, Pundravardhana, Anbar, Bobastro and Vijaya at their ruins.
- Portland, Maine, and Springfield, Massachusetts and Illinois, read their own articles; each had read a namesake's.