Newfoundland & Labrador not an official place?

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Hi, I noticed that the Canadian province of Newfoundland & Labrador is not an official place on iNaturalist (the only Canadian province for which this is the case). When one enters this province, iNaturalist throws a rectangle on the map that includes parts of three other provinces (Quebec, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia), as well as the French sovereignty of St. Pierre & Miquelon and even a tiny sliver of the state of Maine! (thank you my American friends for ceding a small part of your beautiful country to us! :). The same is true for the Canadian Northwest Territories (but the other two territories map correctly: Yukon and Nunavut). I am wondering why one province and one territory of Canada are treated differently than all the others. Can we make NL and NT legit?

Greetings from the beautiful white north!

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If you use the Location search instead of the Place search, iNat won’t find the province because there’s a bug with names that are too long. Unfortunately, the bug probably won’t be fixed until the entire Explore page is rewritten, so until then, please use Filters->More filters->Place

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(if you’re interested in the details of the bug, please see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/boundaries-of-the-northwest-territories/40001/4)

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