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29^th Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names

• Note Verbale
• About the venue
• Opening Ceremony
• Postcard
• Fun Activity
• Special Presentations
• Side events
• Press Releases
• Exhibition
• Exhibition photos
• Photo gallery

• English
• French
• Spanish

• UNCC Bangkok, Thailand
• Information Note for participants -including hotels, visa etc. (UPDATED on 7 April 2016)

• Opening speech, by Major General Suppalert Chaichana, Deputy Director of Royal Thai Survey Department
• Welcome Statement, by Major General Suppalert Chaichana, Deputy Director of Royal Thai Survey Department
• Opening Statement, Stefan Schweinfest, Director, United Nations Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs

• Innovation in Naming: Case Studies and challenges for geographic names in 2016, by Patrick Jones
• Progress and challenges of space technology applications in Asia and the Pacific, by Tae Hyung Kim
• The Power of Place and Place Names - UN-GGIM and UNGEGN, by Stefan Schweinfest
• 3 word addresses as a global location reference system, by Steven Ramage

• Side events schedule (as of 21 April 2016)
• Send inquiries to geoinfo_unsd@un.org

• Pre Post Release - 21 April 2016 (STAT/457)
• Post Press Release - 9 May 2016 (STAT/458)

• Fun Activity: Where in the World?
• Invitation to exhibit and registration sign-up sheet
• Austria: Confirmation of the Definitions
• Austria: Place-name Changes
• Austria: Criteria for the Use of Exonyms
• Brazil: The Lexical Contribution of Geogrpahical Names
• Brazil: Pre Conference Symposium on Atlases, Toponymy and the History of Cartography, 19 to 21 of August, 2015, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Botswana : Geographical Names
• Botswana : Historical Migration
• Chile: Capture of Geographic Names in Chilean Island Territory
• Egypt: Census of the Century
• France: Formation et expertise en toponymie dans le monde francophone
• Germany: Map of geographical regions of Germany at 1:1 000 000 scale
• Indonesia: Validation Survey of Small Islands Naming in Indonesia
• Indonesia: Toponym Standardization in Indonesia
• Indonesia: Bulletin
• Poland: Geographical Names in Poland
• Republic of Korea: Geographical Names of the Zodiac of the Year: A Public Awareness Program
• Tunisia: Toponymic Workshop
• UNGEGN-ICA: Web Course Toponymy