Hello,

Was the removal of tags here—and also on all the countries which you decided to edit—discussed somewhere?  It always looks very suspicious when a new user starts removing established tags.  And I am afraid that by doing so you are making life of everyone harder.

For the record, queries on countries always use multiple tags, namely boundary=administrative + admin_level=2 + possibly an ISO code.

But this one is a boundary=land_area relation, it is treated differently and it does not harm having the ISO code of the country set here too.