United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN)
Background, working groups, summary of sessions and reports.
Australian National Placenames Survey
Project to record a national register of geographical names including pronunciation, status, origin and meaning.
Asia-Pacific Institute For Toponymy
Provides support and training for toponymic work in Australasia and South-East Asia. Aims, links, and publications. Macquarie University, Sydney.
The South African Geographical Names Council
Aims, guidance for new placenames, and procedures. Multilingual.
Australian Geographic Place Names (Gazetteer)
Search the Gazetteer of Australia which is a compilation of over 240 000 geographic names of Australia provided by members of the Committee for Geographic Names in Australia.
Country names by ISO 2-letter codes.
These codes are the ones used in Internet domain names.
Antarctic Place Names Commission, Republic of Bulgaria
Includes a national gazetteer listing all Bulgarian place names in Antarctica with description of the relevant geographical features.
Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia (CGNA)
Representation on CGNA comes from the Australian State / Territory Geographical Names Boards, New Zealand and other individuals with an interest on nomenclature.
Iranian Committee for Standardization of Geographical Names
Databases, working groups, and information on transcription procedures and Persian writing systems.
Land Information New Zealand
Place name database, street index, rules of naming, decisions and proposals.
The Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use
Advises the British government on the proper writing of geographical names for places and features outside the United Kingdom. Includes information on English conventional names and Romanisation tables.
SCAR Antarctic Composite Gazetteer
Standardisation of the Antarctic toponymy. Searchable database includes 21,552 official names, corresponding to 16,563 features.
Topnymic Elements: Ecuadorian Highlands
Maps of toponymic element distribution in the Ecuadorian highlands plus some preliminary comments.
USMARC Code List for Countries.
Country Names and different codings and listings for them.
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