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By that logic, most of those countries' official names don't start with I, so the map is still wrong whichever way you do it.
Not really. That's their official English name. Same as when Czechia renamed itself from Czech Republic. Both aren't the name in the Czech language, but a country can still change their English name.
No, just don't apply the official names to all of the rest, only the outlier we want to ignore. It's the scientific method.