>>>It is both a valid state and a valid country as far as the UT context is concerned.
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>>>>It veered off because Puerto Rico being a state was asserted to be valid. But never mind....
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>>You can not have both, so Michel should make a pick.
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>Ok, I'll bite. Why can't Michel have both?

For unification and for statistical information. I, personally, when I have a moment, try to standardize the data as much as I can. All the misspelled cities get corrected / mapped to one uniform spelling, cities from the wrong countries get re-pointed, etc.

Say, we may have Agra in CA, USA instead of India, etc. These types of problems. Even though there is no chance to get the addresses correctly standardized - it's a lost cause.