National Names Authorities
- Australia and New Zealand - Committee for Geographical
Names in Australasia (CGNA)
http://www.icsm.gov.au/icsm/cgna/ - Brazil - Comitê de Nomes Geográficos (CNGEO)
http://www.ngb.ibge.gov.br - Canada...Geographical Names Board of Canada
http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/info/gnbc_e.php - Czech Republic - Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping
and Cadastre
http://www.cuzk.cz/ - The Greenland Place Names Committee (Nunat Aqqinik Aalajangiisartut)
http://www.oqaasileriffik.gl/en/oqaasileriffik/placenamescommittee - The Faroese Place Names Committee
Staðarnavnanevndin
Fróðskaparsetur Føroya
Postboks 272
FO-110 Tórshavn
- Estonia
- Place Names Board of Estonia
http://www.eki.ee/knn/index2.htm - Estonia - Place Names Act of Estonia
http://www.eki.ee/knn/kns2.htm
- Place Names Board of Estonia
- Finland - Research Institute for the Languages of
Finland
http://www.kotus.fi/?l=en&s=1 - France - Institut Géographique National - Toponymie
http://www.ign.fr/affiche_rubrique.asp?rbr_id=926&lng_id-FR - Iceland - Place Name Committee
http://www.arnastofnun.is/page/arnastofnun_nafn_ornefnanefnd - Iranian Committee for Standardization of Geographical Names
http://geonames.ncc.org.ir - Ireland - The Placenames Commission / An Coimisinéir Teanga
http://www.coimisineir.ie/index.php?page=placenames&tid=31&lang=english - Lithuania .. The State Commission of the Lithuanian Language
http://www.vlkk.lt/ - New Zealand - The New Zealand Geographic Board /
Nga Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa
http://www.linz.govt.nz/placenames/find-names/index.aspx - Norway - The Norwegian Mapping Authority
http://www.statkart.no/ - Republic of Korea- National Geographic Information Institute
http://www.ngii.go.kr/en/main/main.do?rbsIdx=1 - Slovakia - geographical names authorities and the
pertinent acts
http://www.geodesy.gov.sk/sgn/typonym/Eng/typoframe.htm - Slovenia - Slovene Governmental Commission for the
Standardisation of Geographical Names
http://www.gu.gov.si/index.php - South African Geographical Names Council (SAGNC)
http://www.dac.gov.za/projects/heritage/geographical_names/Handbook%20on%20Geographical%20names.pdf - United Kingdom - Permanent Committee on Geographic
Names (PCGN)
http://www.pcgn.org.uk - United States - United States Board on Geographic
Names (BGN)
http://geonames.usgs.gov
