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Published 16 October 2014

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11 March 2026
Update to the 'UK Overseas Territories: toponymic information' document

3 July 2025
Updated 'UK Overseas Territories: toponymic information'.
16 May 2023
Removed 'Indonesia: administrative divisions' and 'Sudan: administrative divisions' as up-to-date information on these regions can be found on https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/toponymic-factfiles.
29 April 2022
'North Korea: information paper' updated.
15 March 2022
Addition of: 'Ukraine: Crimea, second-order administrative divisions' and 'Moldova: Toponymic notes on Transnistria'.
22 July 2021
Added updated information paper for North Korea.
2 June 2021
Added an updated version of Crimea ADM2s (April): small change to 2 footnotes.
23 April 2021
Added an updated version of Crimea: second order administrative divisions.
22 January 2021
Added Morocco: administrative structure (February 2015).
18 December 2020
Added UK Overseas Territories: Toponymic Information.
5 November 2020
Added an updated version of Ukraine: toponymic information paper.
16 November 2017
Added North Korea: information paper (November 2017).
5 July 2017
Updated Sudan: administrative divisions document.
22 September 2016
Added Czechia: New English-language country name for the Czech Republic.
11 February 2016
Added Ivory Coast: administrative structure and Indonesia: administrative divisions.
9 June 2015
Added Liberia, Russia and updated Sudan administrative divisions information.
16 December 2014
Added Karnataka State, India: name changes.
10 November 2014
Added Sierra Leone: administrative divisions.
16 October 2014
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