1st Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names
29 April - 3 May 2019, UNHQ, New York
The documents, country statements and webcast recordings of the 1st Session of UNGEGN are available from the links below;
- Webcast recordings: http://webtv.un.org/
- PaperSmart Portal : https://papersmart.unmeetings.org/ecosoc/ungegn/1st-session/programme/
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Documents
- Documentation for the Session
- GEGN.2/2019/INF/2 (not issued)
- List of working groups and task teams
- GEGN.2/2019/INF/3, Submitted by UNGEGN Secretariat
- English
- Provisional List of participants (forthcoming)
- GEGN.2/2019/INF/4, Submitted by UNGEGN Secretariat
- English
- List of Documents
- GEGN.2/2019/INF/5, Submitted by UNGEGN Secretariat
- English
List of documents by agenda item (documents are uploaded as they become available)
* Please be informed that the technical reports submitted by regional entities and member states are not reviewed or edited by the Secretariat. These reports facilitate the technical discussion of the subject matters on the agenda and help clarify technical issues. The contents of the reports does not reflect the position of the United Nations Secretariat.
The designations employed and the presentation of material does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, city or area, or of its authorities, concerning the appellation of places, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.
- Agenda item 3 - Organizational matters
- Rules of Procedure
- Annotated provisional agenda
- Organization of work
- Agenda item 4 - Reports of the Chair and the Secretariat
- Report of the Chair
- Report of the Secretariat
- Agenda item 5 (a)- Governments on the situation in their countries and on the progress made in the standardization of geographical names
- Report of Cyprus
- Report of Poland
- Report of Ukraine
- Report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Report of Germany
- Standardization of Geographical Names in Japan
- Report of Italy
- Report of Jordan
- Report of the Philippines
- Report of New Zealand
- Report of Sweden
- Report of Egypt
- Republic of Belarus
- Report of Czechia
- Report of Iceland
- Report of Slovenia
- Report of Croatia
- Report of Hungary
- Report of Finland
- Report of Denmark
- Report of Austria
- Report of Brazil
- Report of Madagascar
- Report of Canada
- Report of Norway
- Report of the Netherlands
- Report of Latvia
- Report of Brunei Darussalam
- Report Slovak Republic
- Country Report - The Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.95, Submitted by Viet Nam
- English
- Achievements of the National Committee on Geographical Names in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (NCGN) For the Year 2018 – 2019
- Report of Estonia
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.97, Submitted by Estonia
- English
- Report of State of Palestine
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.100, Submitted by the State of Palestine
- English
- Report of Sri Lanka
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.101, Submitted by Sri Lanka
- English
- Report of Mozambique
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.108, Submitted by Mozambique
- English
- Report of Lithuania
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.110, Submitted by Lithuania
- English
- Country Report from Australia
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.116, Submitted by Australia
- English
- Report of the Republic of Korea
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.117, Submitted by Republic of Korea
- English
- Report of Romania
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.121, Submitted by Romania
- English
- Report of the Russian Federation
- Rapport National - Cameroun
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.129, Submitted by Cameroun
- French
- Country Report of The Republic of Indonesia
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.132, Submitted by Indonesia
- English
- Agenda item 5(b) - Report: Divisions of the Group of Experts
- Rapport de la Division francophone
- Report of the Romano-Hellenic Division
- Report of the Arabic Division
- Report of the Dutch- and German-speaking Division
- Report of the Portuguese-speaking Division
- Report of the Norden Division
- Report of the Baltic Division
- Report of the Asia South-East Division
- Report of the Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia Division
- Report of the East Central and South-East Europe Division
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.111, Submitted by the East Central and South-East Europe Division
- English
- Report of China Division
- Rapport de Division de l'Afrique Centrale
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.128, Submitted by the Africa Central Division
- English
- Agenda item 5 (c) - Report of the Working Group on Country Names
- Update to the Polish “Official list of names of countries and non-self-governing territories"
- List of Country Names
- Report of the Working Group on Country Names
- World Capital City Names and Revised World Country Names
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.131, Submitted by Indonesia
- English
- Agenda item 5 (d) - National and international meetings and conferences
- International Seminar on Sea Names, 2017-2018
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.118, Submitted by Republic of Korea
- English
- Agenda item 6 (a) - Cooperation and liaison with other organizations: International organizations
- Report of the Liaison Officer, International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS)
- Report of the Joint ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy
- Report by the International Hydrographic Organzation
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.103, Submitted by the Liaison Officer, IHO
- English
- Agenda item 6(b) - Cooperation and liaison with other organizations: Economic Commission for Africa and Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management
- Report of the Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management
- Report of the Economic Commission for Africa
- Status report on the contribution of UNGEGN to UN-GGIM activities
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.106, Submitted by UNGEGN Bureau
- English
- Agenda item 7(a) - National and international standardization of geographical names: Names collection, office treatment, national authorities, features beyond a single sovereignty and international cooperation
- National standardization of geographical names: what has been done so far and suggestions on how the UNGEGN could facilitate further progress
- Commemorative Naming in Canada
- Le Canada, un pays bilingue, dont le bilinguisme se reflète dans sa toponymie
- Project on the national standardization of geographical names in Norway
- Report of Mongolia
- Changing The Name of Maluku Tenggara Barat Regency to Kepulauan Tanimbar Regency, Maluku Province, Indonesia
- The Toponym of Cultural Heritage and Tourism in Yogyakarta Province
- Urgency of drafting the government regulation on guidelines for assigning and changing geographical names
- Undersea geographical names in the waters of Indonesia
- Place Names and the Administrative Reform in Estonia
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.98, Submitted by Estonia
- English
- Kramnitse or Kramnitze
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.112, Submitted by Denmark
- English
- China has Completed the Second National Survey of Geogrpahical Names
- Reorganization of Marine Geographical Names and Outreach Activities, 2017-2018
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.119, Submitted by Republic of Korea
- English
- Publication of the Guidelines for the Standardization of Geographical Names, Third Edition
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.120, Submitted by Republic of Korea
- English
- Naming rules for places in Victoria – 2016 Statutory requirements for naming roads, features and localities in Victoria
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.126, Submitted by Australia
- English
- A Way Forward for the Agenda Item Features beyond a single sovereignty
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.130, Submitted by Republic of Korea
- English
- Agenda item 7 (b) - National and international standardization of geographical names: Toponymic guidelines for map and other editors for international use
- Toponymic guidelines for Cartography: Sweden
- Recommendation for naming public thoroughfares in Germany
- Update of the paper entitled "toponymic guidelines for map editors and other editors: Finland"
- General Remarks by the Coordinator of toponymic guidelines for map and other editors for international use
- Agenda item 8 - Social and economic benefits, supporting sustainable development, measures taken and proposed for the implementation of resolutions and evaluation of the work of the Group of Experts (Working Group on Evaluation and Implementation)
- Report on the implementation by New Zealand of resolutions adopted at the United Nations Conferences on the Standardization of Geographical Names
- Arabic version of resolutions adopted at the eleven United Nations Conferences on Geographical Names
- Report of the Working Group on Evaluation and Implementation
- Street naming as effort to narrow gaps between local authorities in the State of Israel
- Alignment of the work of UNGEGN with the decisions and resolutions of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council
- Opportunities of geographical names data files and gazetteers to support the 2030 Agenda
- GEGN.2/2019/104, Submitted by Germany
- English
- Agenda item 9 - Issues of publicity for the Group of Experts and funding of Group projects (Working Group on Publicity and Funding).
- Celebrating Geographical Names Day in Canada
- Report of the Working Group on Publicity and Funding
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.109, Submitted by the Working Group on Publicity and Funding
- English
- Agenda item 10 - Activities on national standardization in Africa (Task Team for Africa).
- Rapport de l’Équipe spéciale pour l’Afrique
- Agenda item 11 - Toponymic education (Working Group on Training Courses in Toponymy)
- Report of the Convenor of the Working Group on Training Courses in Toponymy 2017-2019
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.107, Submitted by the Working Group on Training Courses in Toponymy
- English
- Agenda item 12 - Toponymic terminology (Working Group on Toponymic Terminology)
- Actualisation du Glossaire de termes pour la normalisation des noms géographiques
- Report of the Working Group on Toponymic Terminology 2017-2019
- GEGN.2/2019/102/CRP.102, Submitted by the Working Group on Toponymic Terminology
- English
- Agenda item 13 - Geographical names as culture, heritage and identity, including indigenous, minority and regional languages and multilingual issues (Working Group on Geographical Names as Cultural Heritage)
- Significance of place names in the distribution of wildlife species and their benefits in the reintroduction process
- Report of New Zealand on the project to combine Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu’s Cultural Heritage Atlas, Ka Huru Manu, with the New Zealand Geographic Board gazetteer
- Report of New Zealand on effective engagement with indigenous groups
- Problématique des toponymes issus de langues non ecrites
- Geographical Names As Socio-Cultural Objects And Their Organization
- Registration of the field names of the Tyrol in the National Inventory of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Austria
- International Policy Scan of Indigenous and Minority Language Geographical Names
- Report of the Working Group on Geographical Names as Cultural Heritage
- Necessity Of Creating A Working Group Or Sub-Working Group On Non-Written Language Transcription Systems
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.94, Submitted by Task Team for Africa
- English
- Web Dictionary of Estonian Place Names
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.99, Submitted by Estonia
- English
- Promoting the use of Aboriginal language
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.127, Submitted by Australia
- English
- Agenda item 14 - Exonyms (Working Group on Exonyms).
- New edition of the list of Polish geographical names of the world
- Foreign names in Swedish
- Gazetteer of Finnish exonyms on the Internet
- Border between ‘ours’ and ‘theirs’ drawn by place names
- Survey of exonym use
- Report of the Exonym Working Group
- Agenda item 15 - Toponymic data files and gazetteers (data processing and tools, database management, data dissemination: products and services) (Working Group on Toponymic Data Files and Gazetteers)
- Report of the Working Group on Toponymic Data Files and Gazetteers
- Maintaining and publishing the geographical names database within the German spatial data infrastructure
- Status report on gazetteer developments under European location services
- Experiment in romanization of the web map using geographical name information in vector tile data
- Development of the National Geographical Names Database of the Islamic Republic of Iran and provision of a system for receiving feedback from users and refining information
- Report of New Zealand – on the evolution of the New Zealand gazetteer
- Benefits of persistent unique identifiers of named places and place names
- National Database for Geographical Names of China
- VICNAMES – Register of Geographic Names - Our Victorian repository of place names, and cultural place name history
- GEGN.2/2019/CRP.125, Submitted by Australia
- English
- Rationalisation et normalisation des codes de statuts des toponymes
- Agenda item 16 - Writing systems and pronunciation (Working Group on Romanization Systems)
- Report of the Working Group on Romanization Systems: current status of UN Romanization systems for geographical names
- Agenda item 17 - Other toponymic issues
- no document submitted
