"USA" alphabetically in front of "United Kingdom"

[ian__white@hotmail.com]

I have just registered with this forum
and in doing so I have entered details of
city and country.

The country is selected from a pull-down list
that appears initially at least to be sorted alphabetically

Except that is until you get to the "U"'s
where you discover that, after "Tuvalu" comes:

USA
Uganda
Ukraine
United Aram Emirates
United Kingdom
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu

Can someone either explain this "anomaly" and preferably fix it

Or I shall have to abandon this forum in protest
at this "American" bias

Harumph ;-)

[Pedaldog]

Yeah!!!
Put the U.K. as far from the Bush Kingdomas possible!

[Istanbul_Tea]

Ahhh, seems logical to me...

the software is American made.

Of course I have no idea so I am speaking purely out my arse.

[piggling bland]

This could be to do with ASCII code - upper case being sorted before lower case.  I haven't checked so could be wrong.  In any case, my home nation is not included in the list.

[Severn Bore]

How long would the list need to be to include every nation on earth, including those no one realises are separate nations?[?]

[Durban-Road]

USA is an initialised abbreviation. As such, they are always listed first in most dictionaries, (Under their appropriate letter of course). Could this be why it appears before Uganda etc.?