Eighth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names

Eighth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names
Author:
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.

Manual for the National Standardization of Geographical Names

Manual for the National Standardization of Geographical Names
Author: United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names
Publisher: United Nations Publications
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The present publication is designed primarily to assist countries that do not have an appropriate authority and a specific set of standards for the consistent rendering of their geographical names. The information in the Manual consists of suggestions that should be useful to those intersted in ways to standardize their nation's geographical names