Eighth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names

Eighth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names
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Publisher: United Nations Publications
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2003
Genre: Names, Geographical
ISBN: 9789211009156

The Conference, held once every five years, seeks to reduce alternative names for the same places around the world, as well as to simplify and standardize such names. In the intervening period, preparatory work for the Conference is carried out by the Group of Experts. The work of the United Nations in the area of toponymy, the science of naming geographic features, began in 1959.