East Timor - Leste?

[Jesper Nørgaard]

I have noticed that some sources insist that there was a name change of East Timor to (the more portuguese correct) Timor Leste or Timor-Leste. Even official sources are not consistant in the naming, but I have noted that two important sources

http://www.imf.org/external/country/index.htm

and

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49alpha.htm
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49chang.htm

are consistently using Timor-Leste. I presume that this is also where the recent East Timor (or Timor-Leste) abbreviations TLS (ISO 3-letter country code) and TL (ISO 2-letter country code) are derived from. Should we make a name change?

Regards,


Jesper Nørgaard Welen
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