Using 'sheng' instead of 'province' in Chinese address

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Problematic Chinese Administrative Divisions in Member Search Page

The locations in Postcrossing are not translated by us — or even put together by us. That is an enormous project we just wouldn’t have the means to even start. The data comes from the GeoNames project which tries to merge together several datasets into a single database. The result is not without its problems, but it’s still the best free database we have found. I’m not aware of a better one, even commercial ones, that has the level of coverage that GeoNames has. Now, this topic is actually re…