E18: Editorial issues
 
 

Exercise 1: Producing a names index

 

 

Put the following placenames/toponyms in alphabetical order for a Swedish school atlas (alphabetical sequence in Swedish is abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx (y/ü)zåäö (y and ü have equal status and are interchangeable in the alphabet sequence).

The first number of number pair refers to the atlas page on which the toponym can be found, the letter-number combination is the location reference. The names have been taken from the place name index in Gleerups Stora Skolatlas, Malmö 2004. In Swedish:

ort = town,
ö = island,
kap = cape,
stat = country,
flod = river.

Generic parts are not put behind the specific parts of names in the register. Blanks or spaces are disregarded for alphabetization.

Quy Nhon 76-77 D3 E3
Prenzlau 48-49 I3
Puruvesi 30-31 I6
Port Said 73 B3
Porto Velho 97 F5
Port of Spain 97 F3 G3
Rio Grande (ort) 97 G8 H8
Dagupan 76-77 G2
Kap Schmidt 64-65 T3
Kapuas 76-77 E6
Kap Verde (stat) 100-101 H17
Kap Verde (kap) 86 C4
Östersjön 34-35 G3 H2
Påryd 6-7 E4
Portalegre 58-59 B3
Port Arthur 92-93H6
Rio de Janeiro 97 H7 I7
Rio Grande (flod, USA/Mexico) 92-93 E5 F5
Romsdalen 28-29 E4
Rörvik (Norge) 28-29 F3
Spånga 21B A2 B2
Spanish Town 92-93 K8
Ückermark 48-49 I3 J3
Coatzocoalcos 92-93 H8
Dagö 32-33 K2
Abadan 73 E3
Åbenrå 27 C6
Alcala de Henares 58-59 D2
Ålesund 28-29 C4 D4
Älta 10-11 H5
Kap Stad 4 I3
Rio Grande (flod, Brasilien)96 G7 H7
Rörvik (Sverige) 6-7 D3
Xinxiang 78-79 I4
Yarkand 78-79 B4
Ybbs 54-55 K1
Yemen 70-71 G8
Zaandam 51 C2 D2
Cavourkanalen 60-61 B2
Cávado 58-59 A2
Bua 6-7 B3
Cebu (ö) 76-77 G3
Brösarp 6-7 D6
Cape Cod 92-93 M3
Cape Fear 92-93 K5
Boninöarna 82-83 F16 F17
Cebu (ört) 76-77 G3
Connemara 44-45 B5
De Grey 84-85 C3
De Haan 51 A3 B3

 

 
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