Wrong country borders

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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website

App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About):

Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Vivaldi

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=213357&subview=map

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Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):

Step 1: Go to discover page and search for species in Switzerland

Step 2: Put “Switzerland” (or “Schweiz”) in the location field

Step 3: Observations are shown from Swiss National Park (Schweizer Nationalpark), which is only a small part of the whole country.

Normally, untill a few days ago (1-2 weeks? I can’t tell exactly), there was drawn a rectangle around the country with some small parts from neighouring countries in it too.

When I choose the “Filter” and put “Switzerland” in, the country is choosen correctly.

I’m not able to find “Switzerland” with the location field.

Thanks in advance for your kind help.

this is the same problem as described in https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/search-engine-with-problems-with-word-brazil/28136/17.

you should use the place input box (denoted by your arrow in the first photo in your original post), and only use the location box if you can’t find your place in the place input box.

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Thanks. That’s not logical to me. But it works. :)

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