Toponymic factfiles
Toponymic (place name) factfile papers produced by the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN).
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Updated: Congo, Kuwait, Qatar, South Sudan and Sudan toponymic factfiles.
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Updated: Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia toponymic factfiles. Added: Djibouti toponymic factfile.
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Added Vietnam, South Africa, Madagascar, Zimbabwe and Guinea-Bissau toponymic factfiles. Updated Norway, Haiti and South Korea toponymic factfiles.
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Updated Estonia and Lebanon toponymic factfiles.
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Added Equatorial Guinea and Somalia toponymic factfiles, and updated Armenia and Azerbaijan toponymic factfiles.
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Added Burkina Faso, Congo, Croatia and Zambia toponymic factfiles, and updated Democratic Republic of the Congo and Yemen toponymic factfiles.
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Added Philippines: toponymic factfile and updated Georgia: toponymic factfile and Nigeria: toponymic factfile.
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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.
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Updated Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti and Switzerland: toponymic factfiles.
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Added Mauritania and UAE toponymic factfiles.
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Updated South Korea: toponymic factfile.
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Added: toponymic factfiles for Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Switzerland.
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Added: Cameroon toponymic factfile. Updated: Albania, Bangladesh, Brunei and Indonesia toponymic factfiles.
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Updated: India: toponymic factfile. Added: South Sudan: toponymic factfile.
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Added 'Bhutan: toponymic factfile'.
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Added Afghanistan and Sudan toponymic factfiles, and updated Indonesia, Kosovo and Turkey toponymic factfiles.
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Added Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Norway toponymic factfiles. Updated Myanmar (Burma): toponymic factfile.
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Added Bulgaria and East Timor toponymic factfiles.
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Added 'Slovenia: toponymic factfile' and 'Uzbekistan: toponymic factfile', and updated 'Turkmenistan: toponymic factfile'.
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'Kosovo: toponymic factfile' added.
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Added Indonesia: toponymic factfile.
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Added toponymic factfiles for Oman and Serbia, and updated 'Kazakhstan: toponymic factfile'.
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Added 'North Korea: toponymic factfile' and 'South Korea: toponymic factfile'.
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Added toponymic factfiles for North Macedonia, Russia and India.
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Added factfiles for Japan, Myanmar and Romania.
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Updated: Ethiopia and Ukraine factfiles replaced with most recent editions.
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Added new factfiles for Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
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Addition of ' Kyrgyzstan: toponymic factfile'.
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Replaced the Kazakhstan factfile.
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Added new factfiles for Tajikistan, Slovakia and Kazakhstan. Replaced factfile for Poland.
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Addition of: March 2022 toponymic factfiles documents.
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Addition of: Ukraine: toponymic factfile (February 2022).
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Added Iraq: toponymic factfile.
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Added a new toponymic factfile for Chad and an updated toponymic factfile for Greece.
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Added an amended version of the Ethiopia factfile.
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Added toponymic factfiles for Cambodia and Ethiopia.
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Added Eritrea: toponymic factfile and Latvia: toponymic factfile.
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Added updated toponymic factfiles for Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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Added toponymic factfiles for Georgia, Lebanon and Turkmenistan.
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Added toponymic factfiles for Kuwait and Qatar.
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Added new factfiles for Albania and India. Updated factfiles for Bangladesh, Estonia, Lithuania and Romania.
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Added new factfiles for: Bangladesh, Estonia, Greece, Lithuania, Poland Romania, Sri Lanka and Ukraine. Updated factfiles for: Armenia and Libya.
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