@John *********
the problem is there is no consistency on this. Some want exactly what's written on the passport, and this is also what they say they want. This is what OP wrote, his passport was issued at the French Embassy Bangkok and he copied exactly that from the passport. But others don't want what's written there but rather want your country repeated, or maybe the city. How is an applicant to know? Plenty of people say "copy exactly as on passport". But if it's not your home country, or a city in your home country, that often leads to rejection. Or, it may not, if it's an embassy that does want that.