why US passport (and possibly others) mention which state or country passport holder was born in? Who needs that information?
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disambiguation information. in early times you had one name, ie john then they added paulson, ie son of paul, or baker, or carpenter, the city/state on your passport helps disambiguate two similar names.
the wikipedia has a disambiguation type of landing page, an example:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_(disambiguation)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_(disambiguation))
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