Talk:Eswatini

Map of Eswatini's Territorial claims in South Africa

Does anyone know of a map that shows Eswatini's territorial dispute with South Africa? It would useful for the article to include those claimed areas on the map as we do for disputed areas in the articles of other countries like Venezuela and India.XavierGreen (talk)

Change type of government

It's not a "Unitary parliamentary absolute monarchy", rather it's a "Unitary absolute monarchy under Semi-constitutional monarchy". I cannot edit it, please edit it on my behalf. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.219.181.246 (talk) 23:03, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
Source? ---Taltos :) (talk) 17:05, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Area

The infobox gives the total area as 17,364 sq. km … but the total of the areas of the administrative districts is 18,374 sq. km: the infobox has shrunk Eswatini by 1,010 sq. km - i.e. by 5.5%! Prisoner of Zenda (talk) 10:14, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

I checked the CIA Factbook, the Commonwealth, the BBC, and Encylopaedia Brittanica and found they all gave the same figure 17,364. The UN gives 17,363, the Government of Eswatini website gives 17,360, and the World Bank gives 17,300. Most Wikis in other languages that I checked (French, Dutch, German, Swati) use either 17,363 or 17,364. Clearly the mistake in the size of the administrative divisions. I have changed the numbers on the main page (since there was no citation anyway) to match the numbers on the articles on the divisions of Eswatini. I am not filled with confidence in the sources cited in the various articles, but the numbers at least do roughly add up. If anybody does find a good source, please feel free to add it to the main page. Francoisdjvr (talk) 11:23, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

"still commonly known in English as Swaziland"

This line is in the introduction, but if this was true, wouldn't the article name be "Swaziland" as per WP:COMMONNAME? Does the line need to be rewritten? --Spekkios (talk) 01:28, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Might as well call it Swaziland, in English. The real name of a big European country is Italia, but English speakers call it Italy. Some research needed as to how far ranging the change is. Did the decree say that the new name is preferred in all languages? In any case, the new name means ‘land of the Swazis’, so if there are politics around this, they should be discussed in the article. 24.4.136.172 (talk) 16:05, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

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Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The government is an absolute monarchy, the last of its kind in Africa, and the country has been ruled by King Mswati III since 1986. One of the country's important cultural events is Umhlanga, the reed-dance festival, held in August or September each year. This photograph shows Princess Sikhanyiso Dlamini, the eldest daughter of Mswati III, at the 2006 festival.

Photograph credit: Amada44

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