1st Conference
4 - 22 September, 1967, Geneva


Documents
  • United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, Vol. 1 Report of the Conference (United Nations Publication E.68.I.9,1968)
  • United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, Vol. 2 Proceedings of the Conference and technical papers (United Nations Publication E.69.I.8, 1969)
  • Provisional Agenda
  • Draft report of the Conference
  • Draft report of the Conference
  • Draft report of the Conference
  • Draft report of the Conference
  • Draft report of the Conference
  • Draft report of the Conference
  • Draft report of Committee I
  • Projet de rapport de la Conférence
  • Draft report of Committee III
  • Draft report of Committee IV
  • Information regarding general arrangements of immediate interest to the participants
  • Information regarding general arrangements of immediate interest to the participants
    • E/CONF/.53/INF/1, Add.1
    • English
  • List of documents issued for the Conference
  • Revised list of documents issued for the Conference
  • Preparatory meeting for the United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names: report of the Group of Experts
  • Quelques problèmes de toponymie cartographique: document de base
  • Preparations for the forthcoming Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names: background paper
  • Extracts from World Cartography, volume VII
    • E/CONF/.53/L.2, Submitted by UN Conf. Sec.
    • English
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: Kenya
  • Exchange of experience on problems identified in the Group of Experts' report
  • National standardization - administrative structure of national names authorities
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: Netherlands
  • National standardization: national gazetteers
  • Exchange of experience on problems identified in the Group of Experts' report
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: Federal Republic of Germany
  • Writing systems: proposal on the transliteration and transcription of geographical names
  • Exchange of experience on problems identified in the Group of Experts' report
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: Austria
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: Hungary
  • Writing systems: methods of transliteration
  • International co-operation
  • Codification of geographic names for United States government needs
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: Thailand
  • Identification code numbers for administrative divisions in Thailand
  • National standardization: national gazetteers
  • Writing systems: transfer of names from the Thai writing system to Roman letters
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: Nigeria
  • Rapport sur la normalisation des noms géographiques au Cameroun (Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: Cameroon)
  • Report by governments on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names : Australia
  • National standardization and writing systems
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: Israel
  • International co-operation - steps towards international standardization
  • International co-operation - steps towards international standardization
    • E/CONF/.53/L.26/Add.1, Submitted by USA
    • English
  • Writing systems - transfer of names from one writing system to another - into Roman
  • Geographical terms - glossaries
  • Romanization of Chinese characters for place names
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: United States of America
  • Writing systems: some general principles of transliteration and transcription
  • Writing systems: collection and treatment of geographic names in Libya
  • National standardization: guidelines for preparing and submitting proposals regarding domestic geographical names
  • Writing systems - transfer of names from one writing system to another; Romanization Guide, 1967
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: Spain
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: Spain
    • E/CONF/.53/L.35/Add.1, Submitted by Spain
    • English
  • Principes de translittération de l'arabe en caractères latins : renseignements présentés par le Gouvernement français
  • See E/CONF.53/L.48
    • E/CONF/.53/L.37, Submitted by France
  • Problems of correlating national and international standardization of geographical names
  • See E/CONF.53/L.50
    • E/CONF/.53/L.39, Submitted by USSR
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: USSR
  • Problems of standardization of geographical names under the conditions of a multinational state
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Standardization practices: International Civil Aviation Organization
  • Guatemala - some of its toponymic problems
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: Venezuela
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: China
  • Exchange of experience on problems identified in the Group of Experts' report
  • Some problems in rendering geographical names from one system of writing into another
  • See E/CONF.53/L.41 above
    • E/CONF/.53/L.49, Submitted by USSR
  • See E/CONF.53/L.41 above
    • E/CONF/.53/L.49/Corr.1, Submitted by USSR
  • An international glossary of local geographic terms
  • See E/CONF.53/L.38 above
    • E/CONF/.53/L.51, Submitted by USSR
  • Problems of correlating national and international standardization of geographical names
    • E/CONF/.53/L.51/Corr.1, Submitted by USSR
    • English
  • Principes de transcription des toponymes africains
  • Field geographic names reports - supplemental instructions (United States Coast and Geodetic Survey)
  • Statement from the International Hydrographic Bureau
  • Decisions relating to multilingual areas
  • National standardization - administrative structure of national names authorities
  • The Roman alphabet rule
  • Names on ordnance survey maps and plans
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: Canada
  • Normalisation nationale et répertoires géographiques
  • Termes techniques
  • Normalisation nationale
  • Principles and procedures
  • Gazetteer of Canada
  • Situation en Belgique d'expression néerlandaise (Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: the situation in Dutch-speaking Belgium)
  • Collection and treatment of geographical names in Sweden
  • Scandinavian regional standardization
  • Rapport rélatif à la normalisation des noms géographiques (Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: Romania)
  • La toponymie à Madagascar (Toponymy in Madagascar)
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: Finland
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: United Kingdom
  • Automation of undersea feature names
  • Writing systems - transliteration
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: Ghana
  • Excerpts from the Specifications of the International Map of the World on the Millionth Scale
  • Code pour les désignations abrégées des principaux détails topographiques apparaissant couramment sur les cartes officiales libanaises (Legend for the abbreviated generics of the principal topographic details which usually appear on the official Lebanese maps)
  • Expériences sur le traitement des noms dans les régions multilingues ou de minorits de langues (Experience in the treatment of names in multilingual or linguistic minority areas)
  • Note bibliographique sur les glossaires publiés (Bibliographical note on glossaries published)
    • E/CONF/.53/L.78, Submitted by Switzerland
    • French
  • Condition and prospects of the work on orthography and transcription of geographical names in the People's Republic of Bulgaria
  • Apuntes on torno a la elaboración del Diccionario Geográfico de Guatemala (Notes on the preparation of a Guatemalan geographical dictionary)
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: Hungary
  • Noms géographiques en écriture cyrillique (Geographical names in Cyrillic script)
  • L'ICOS et la standardisation internationale des noms géographiques (The International Committee on Onomastic Sciences and international standardization of geographical names)
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: Norway
  • Letter dated 22 September 1967 from the delegations of France, the Federal Republic of Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States of America to the President of the Conference
    • E/CONF/.53/L.85, Submitted by France, FRG, UK, USA
    • English | French
  • Report on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names: Cambodia
  • Letter dated 22 September 1967 from the delegations of Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the President of the Conference
    • E/CONF/.53/L.87, Submitted by Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, USSR
    • English
  • Provisional summary record of the first plenary meeting, held on 4 September 1967 (afternoon)
  • Provisional summary record of the first plenary meeting, held on 5 September 1967 (morning)
  • Provisional summary record of the first plenary meeting, held on 5 September 1967 (afternoon)
  • Provisional summary record of the first plenary meeting, held on 6 September 1967 (morning)
  • Provisional summary record of the first plenary meeting, held on 6 September 1967 (afternoon)
  • Provisional summary record of the first plenary meeting, held on 11 September 1967 (morning)
  • Provisional summary record of the first plenary meeting, held on 18 September 1967 (morning)
  • Provisional summary record of the first plenary meeting, held on 21 September 1967 (afternoon)
  • Provisional summary record of the first plenary meeting, held on 22 September 1967 (morning)
  • Provisional list of representatives to the Conference
    • E/CONF.53/MISC.1
    • English | French | Spanish
  • Additions to the provisional list of representatives to the Conference
  • Minutes of the meeting of the ad hoc Committee of the Group of Experts
  • Information for participants with Appendix