[tomerv]

Follow-up question: what if other countries follow suit, especially ones that don't use a Latin-based alphabet? Egypt is formally called "جمهورية مصر العربية" in its native language - should that be recorded as the ISO Full name for EG?

[Gibbon1]

I think Egypt should be forced to revert to hieroglyphs.

[elashri]

Actually the name "Egypt" comes from the Greek pronunciation of the ancient Egyptian capital Memphis ( at least for most of the time it was).

The current official name is "Junhuriyah Misr al-Arabiyah" which is Arab Republic of Egypt in English. This is not something special. a lot of countries have something like "republic of" in their names.

[zen_1]

We'd need to touch up our school curriculum (well, even more than we already do).