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i understand using family name first for leader/president or public press, but iirc most of the asian country still using given name before family name in their passports


Passports have completely separate fields for "surname" and "given names". And the machine-readable representation at the bottom is always SURNAME<GIVEN< even for countries that have the opposite convention.




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