COMMONS13 — US-centric geopolitical terminology

This ontology defines "County" and "FederalState", which bias the ontology toward the administrative geography of the United States. Cantons and provinces are defined as synonyms or FederalState, but other countries have subdivisions that go by other names. The term "GeopoliticalEntity" could apply in that case (e.g., to a French "région" or "département", except that GeopoliticalEntity is defined as a subclass of GeographicRegion, which is "an area of land that has common features" which seems to be mostly about physical characteristic (a mountain, a plain, etc.) not a geopolitical entity.
It would seem that more generic terms than "County" or "FederalState" should be used to better address the geopolitical subdivision of countries other than the U.S.

US-centric geopolitical terminology

This issue raises two questions: (1) whether certain concepts are overly US centric, which is addressed by use of LCC, and (2) the definition of geopolitical entity, which we have raised COMMONS13-49 to address.

With respect to US language, the concept of a county uses the same language used in other English speaking countries including the UK, Australia, etc. The concept of a federal state applies in a number of other countries including Mexico. LCC contains the names for all subdivisions world-wide that are reported to the UN in their native language(s), and so making these kinds of modifications to find more common terms, given that American English is the language of OMG specifications, is redundant.