[Bug]: Country - Kyrgyzstan, duplicate states detected - OSH (id: 1003), OSH (id: 1005)

[edgubilig]

Issue Type

Incorrect Data (wrong information)

Location (if applicable)

Country - Kyrgyzstan, duplicate state (OSH)

Bug Description

Country - Kyrgyzstan, duplicate states detected - OSH (id: 1003), OSH (id: 1005)

Better to delete state under id 1003,
State under 1003 is empty, has no cities and dependencies,
but the same state under id 1005 has all the cities inside

Expected Behaviour

Better to delete state under id 1003,
State under 1003 is empty, has no cities and dependencies,
but the same state under id 1005 has all the cities inside

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[dosubot]

Hi @edgubilig! I'm Dosu and I’m helping the countries-states-cities-database team.

These two entries are actually not strict duplicates — they represent different administrative levels in Kyrgyzstan:

• ID 1003 — Osh City (type: city, ISO3166-2: KG-GO) — has no associated cities [1]
• ID 1005 — Osh Region (type: region, ISO3166-2: KG-O) — has 9 associated cities [1]

Kyrgyzstan's administrative structure treats Osh city as a separate city-level division (similar to how some countries have "cities of national significance") distinct from the surrounding Osh region/oblast. They have different ISO codes (KG-GO vs KG-O), which reflects official ISO 3166-2 subdivisions.

That said, if state ID 1003 is truly empty (no cities, no dependencies), one could argue it's redundant for practical use. A middle-ground fix might be to add the city of Osh itself as a city entry under state 1003, which would make both entries useful. But outright deletion would lose a valid ISO 3166-2 subdivision.

Related: PR #1139 previously addressed duplicate states across several countries and noted ~42 unresolved duplicate pairs remain in the database.

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