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Toponymic factfiles
Toponymic (place name) factfile papers produced by the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN).
Original document : https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/toponymic-factfiles
Change description : 2023-09-04 11:16:00: Added: toponymic factfiles for Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Switzerland. [Guidance and regulation]
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Toponymic (place name) factfile papers produced by the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN).
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.
Added: toponymic factfiles for Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Switzerland.
Added: Cameroon toponymic factfile. Updated: Albania, Bangladesh, Brunei and Indonesia toponymic factfiles.
Updated: India: toponymic factfile. Added: South Sudan: toponymic factfile.
Added 'Bhutan: toponymic factfile'.
Added Afghanistan and Sudan toponymic factfiles, and updated Indonesia, Kosovo and Turkey toponymic factfiles.
Added Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Norway toponymic factfiles. Updated Myanmar (Burma): toponymic factfile.
Added Bulgaria and East Timor toponymic factfiles.
Added 'Slovenia: toponymic factfile' and 'Uzbekistan: toponymic factfile', and updated 'Turkmenistan: toponymic factfile'.
'Kosovo: toponymic factfile' added.
Added Indonesia: toponymic factfile.
Added toponymic factfiles for Oman and Serbia, and updated 'Kazakhstan: toponymic factfile'.
Added 'North Korea: toponymic factfile' and 'South Korea: toponymic factfile'.
Added toponymic factfiles for North Macedonia, Russia and India.
Added factfiles for Japan, Myanmar and Romania.
Updated: Ethiopia and Ukraine factfiles replaced with most recent editions.
Added new factfiles for Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Addition of ' Kyrgyzstan: toponymic factfile'.
Replaced the Kazakhstan factfile.
Added new factfiles for Tajikistan, Slovakia and Kazakhstan. Replaced factfile for Poland.
Addition of: March 2022 toponymic factfiles documents.
Addition of: Ukraine: toponymic factfile (February 2022).
Added Iraq: toponymic factfile.
Added a new toponymic factfile for Chad and an updated toponymic factfile for Greece.
Added an amended version of the Ethiopia factfile.
Added toponymic factfiles for Cambodia and Ethiopia.
Added Eritrea: toponymic factfile and Latvia: toponymic factfile.
Added updated toponymic factfiles for Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Added toponymic factfiles for Georgia, Lebanon and Turkmenistan.
Added toponymic factfiles for Kuwait and Qatar.
Added new factfiles for Albania and India. Updated factfiles for Bangladesh, Estonia, Lithuania and Romania.
Added new factfiles for: Bangladesh, Estonia, Greece, Lithuania, Poland Romania, Sri Lanka and Ukraine. Updated factfiles for: Armenia and Libya.
First published.
2025-03-31 16:13
Added: Brazil, Malta, Mexico, and Sao Tome and Principe. Updated: Mali, Malaysia.
2025-01-28 16:35
Updated: South Korea, Rwanda, Japan toponymic factfile.
2025-01-13 14:56
Updated: Indonesia, Mozambique, Qatar and Syria toponymic factfiles.
2024-10-22 14:54
Updated: Bahrain, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Philippines and Somalia toponymic factfiles.
2024-10-18 14:54
Updated: Congo, Kuwait, Qatar, South Sudan and Sudan toponymic factfiles.
2024-06-19 16:07
Updated: Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia toponymic factfiles. Added: Djibouti toponymic factfile.
2024-03-14 16:14
Added Vietnam, South Africa, Madagascar, Zimbabwe and Guinea-Bissau toponymic factfiles. Updated Norway, Haiti and South Korea toponymic factfiles.
2024-02-06 14:08
Updated Estonia and Lebanon toponymic factfiles.
2024-01-29 11:43
Added Equatorial Guinea and Somalia toponymic factfiles, and updated Armenia and Azerbaijan toponymic factfiles.
2024-01-16 11:38
Added Burkina Faso, Congo, Croatia and Zambia toponymic factfiles, and updated Democratic Republic of the Congo and Yemen toponymic factfiles.
2023-12-08 11:26
Added Philippines: toponymic factfile and updated Georgia: toponymic factfile and Nigeria: toponymic factfile.
2023-11-09 16:03
Added toponymic factfiles for Angola, Burundi, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Laos, Maldives, Mozambique and Rwanda. Updated factfiles for Cameroon, Ethiopia, Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand.
2023-09-04 11:16
Added: toponymic factfiles for Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Switzerland.
2023-07-05 14:15
Added: Cameroon toponymic factfile. Updated: Albania, Bangladesh, Brunei and Indonesia toponymic factfiles.
2023-06-26 12:21
Updated: India: toponymic factfile. Added: South Sudan: toponymic factfile.
2023-05-23 15:20
Added ‘Bhutan: toponymic factfile’.
2023-05-16 14:45
Added Afghanistan and Sudan toponymic factfiles, and updated Indonesia, Kosovo and Turkey toponymic factfiles.
2023-03-23 14:49
Added Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Norway toponymic factfiles. Updated Myanmar (Burma): toponymic factfile.
2023-01-25 11:42
Added Bulgaria and East Timor toponymic factfiles.
2023-01-19 09:50
Added ‘Slovenia: toponymic factfile’ and ‘Uzbekistan: toponymic factfile’, and updated ‘Turkmenistan: toponymic factfile’.
2022-11-10 11:41
‘Kosovo: toponymic factfile’ added.
2022-10-21 15:20
Added Indonesia: toponymic factfile.
2022-10-18 10:35
Added toponymic factfiles for Oman and Serbia, and updated ‘Kazakhstan: toponymic factfile’.
2022-09-20 13:44
Added ‘North Korea: toponymic factfile’ and ‘South Korea: toponymic factfile’.
2022-07-28 15:08
Added toponymic factfiles for North Macedonia, Russia and India.
2022-07-08 16:43
Added factfiles for Japan, Myanmar and Romania.
2022-06-21 10:48
Updated: Ethiopia and Ukraine factfiles replaced with most recent editions.
2022-05-06 14:43
Added new factfiles for Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
2022-04-29 11:36
Addition of ‘ Kyrgyzstan: toponymic factfile’.
2022-04-20 09:54
Replaced the Kazakhstan factfile.
2022-04-01 16:25
Added new factfiles for Tajikistan, Slovakia and Kazakhstan. Replaced factfile for Poland.
2022-03-14 16:05
Addition of: March 2022 toponymic factfiles documents.
2022-02-24 16:13
Addition of: Ukraine: toponymic factfile (February 2022).
