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Toponymic factfiles

Toponymic (place name) factfile papers produced by the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN).

Documents

Albania: toponymic factfile

Armenia: toponymic factfile

Azerbaijan: toponymic factfile

Bahrain: toponymic factfile

Bangladesh toponymic factfile

Belarus: toponymic factfile

Brunei: toponymic factfile

Cambodia: toponymic factfile

Chad: toponymic factfile

Egypt: toponymic factfile

Eritrea: toponymic factfile

Estonia toponymic factfile

Ethiopia: toponymic factfile

Finland: toponymic factfile

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Georgia: toponymic factfile

Greece toponymic factfile

Haiti: toponymic factfile

India: toponymic factfile

Iran: toponymic factfile

Iraq: toponymic factfile

Japan: toponymic factfile

Jordan: toponymic factfile

Kazakhstan: toponymic factfile

Kuwait: toponymic factfile

Kyrgyzstan: toponymic factfile

Latvia: toponymic factfile

Lebanon: toponymic factfile

Libya: toponymic factfile

Lithuania toponymic factfile

Malaysia: toponymic factfile

Mali: toponymic factfile

Moldova: toponymic factfile

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Niger: toponymic factfile

Nigeria: toponymic factfile

North Korea: toponymic factfile

Pakistan: toponymic factfile

Poland toponymic factfile

Qatar: toponymic factfile

Romania: toponymic factfile

Russia: toponymic factfile

Saudi Arabia: toponymic factfile

Slovakia: toponymic factfile

South Korea: toponymic factfile

Sri Lanka toponymic factfile

Syria: toponymic factfile

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Tajikistan: toponymic factfile

Thailand: toponymic factfile

Tunisia: toponymic factfile

Turkey: toponymic factfile

Turkmenistan: toponymic factfile

Ukraine: toponymic factfile

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Yemen: toponymic factfile

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Toponymic factfiles produced by the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN). Various relevant documents published before July 2014 can found in the UK Government Web Archive.

Any papers not in PDF format can be obtained from PCGN in paper copy. Please note that these documents are Crown Copyright.

Published 30 October 2020
Last updated 2820 JulySeptember 2022 + show all updates
  1. Added 'North Korea: toponymic factfile' and 'South Korea: toponymic factfile'.

  2. Added toponymic factfiles for North Macedonia, Russia and India.

  3. Added factfiles for Japan, Myanmar and Romania.

  4. Updated: Ethiopia and Ukraine factfiles replaced with most recent editions.

  5. Added new factfiles for Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

  6. Addition of ' Kyrgyzstan: toponymic factfile'.

  7. Replaced the Kazakhstan factfile.

  8. Added new factfiles for Tajikistan, Slovakia and Kazakhstan. Replaced factfile for Poland.

  9. Addition of: March 2022 toponymic factfiles documents.

  10. Addition of: Ukraine: toponymic factfile (February 2022).

  11. Added Iraq: toponymic factfile.

  12. Added a new toponymic factfile for Chad and an updated toponymic factfile for Greece.

  13. Added an amended version of the Ethiopia factfile.

  14. Added toponymic factfiles for Cambodia and Ethiopia.

  15. Added Eritrea: toponymic factfile and Latvia: toponymic factfile.

  16. Added updated toponymic factfiles for Armenia and Azerbaijan.

  17. Added toponymic factfiles for Georgia, Lebanon and Turkmenistan.

  18. Added toponymic factfiles for Kuwait and Qatar.

  19. Added new factfiles for Albania and India. Updated factfiles for Bangladesh, Estonia, Lithuania and Romania.

  20. Added new factfiles for: Bangladesh, Estonia, Greece, Lithuania, Poland Romania, Sri Lanka and Ukraine. Updated factfiles for: Armenia and Libya.

  21. First published.