Google translates country name Albania to India

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Obiero Simon

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Apr 13, 2015, 3:46:02 AM4/13/15

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I have a website that showcases environmental data for all countries, http://uneplive.unep.org. When I visit the page for the country Albania, http://uneplive.unep.org/country/index/AL, and translate it to any other language apart from English, it seems to translate fine. But when I translate the page back to English, the country name Albania gets translated to India. Is this a bug? My site's default language is English.

This is my html declaration:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en" xml:lang="en" >

This is my code:
<div id="google_translate_element" style="font-size:8px;margin-top:-5px; max-width:200px;" ></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
        function googleTranslateElementInit() {
        new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'en', layout: google.translate.TranslateElement.InlineLayout.SIMPLE, multilanguagePage: false}, 'google_translate_element');
        }
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit"></script>

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Mario

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Apr 13, 2015, 8:01:59 AM4/13/15

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As already answer in this other question, the translations are crowd-influenced and someone could have proposed India as the translation to Albania.

The way to solve it is to propose the correct translation by several users as described in the other question.