We have decided to adopt INSDC standards for country names, documented by this ADR. This ticket to determine how to implement this in the GOLD and NEON ETL scripts
@turbomam had previously tested modeling which separated out country, region, and locality in microbiomedata/nmdc-schema#2308. The PR was never merged in but is something to consider for this exercise.
cc @mslarae13 @pkalita-lbl @sujaypatil96