Always a delight as a British person living in England, you get the fun of scrolling around to try to find whether it's:

• United Kingdom
• U.K.
• Great Britain
• GBR
• England

My bet is too many cooks:

It's a static list, sorted once at creation by the original author, with UK as Great Britain.

Then a different author came along and was told to replace GB with UK, probably did a find & replace all across the codebase, and didn't notice the list was sorted.

Always fun to search for Germany in those lists. I've seen Germany listed under D and Deutschland under G.

🇬🇷 (4G only) and 🇷🇸 (4G only) have me cackling, too

I suspect they have sorted by the name and displayed a localised version which uses the truncated full version: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

ETA fixed typo

Where does it claim to be alphabetical?

They've even put Austria among European countries. Correct spelling:

Oh god, svalbard wraps arround so it looks like "svalbard and jan" and "mayen"

Jan Mayen is part of Norway, and Svalbard is under Norway, but due to [long reason] not part of the Kingdom, and with Russian settlements

Maybe they just forgot where the letter M goes or maybe it's vibe coded slop.

perhaps it was sorted into G because it is AKA Great Britain