ICA course on Toponymy

Available documents:

D12-01: Recent developments in international standardization of geographic names: progress between the second and third regional cartographic conferences for Asia and the Far East (Background paper by the United States of America). (3rd UN Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Far East, vol. II, proceedings of the Conference. New York 1965. Agenda item 12, Geographical Names, pp 312/314). For proceedings click: URL / pdf.
D12-02: Preparatory meeting for the United Nations Conference on the standardization of geographical names: Report of the Group of Experts on Geographical names (1966) / URL.
D12-03: Kerfoot, H. (2003). Role of the United Nations in the standardization of geographical names. Pp 109-119 in Ferjan Ormeling, Jörn Sievers and Hans Stabe (eds.), Training Course on Toponymy, Enschede, Frankfurt and Berlin 2002. Mitteilungen des BKG 28, Frankfurt am Main 2003.

Online resources:

UN Documents on the standardization of geographical names / pdf
List of country names and associated practical information on the web site of the Cartography Section, United Nations, New York / pdf
Group on Gazetteers and toponyymic data files
UNGEGN - Working Group on Romanization systems
ICA - Commission on Education and Training (CET)
Cours de toponimie

The United Nations sell the following publications which also can be downloaded from the UNGEGN website:

Glossary of Terms for the Standardization of Geographical Names (New York 2002) / pdf

Manual for the national standardization of geographical names (UN - Ecosoc, New York, 2006 ST/ESA/STAT/SERM/88 Sales No. E.06.XVII.7 ISBN 92-1-161490-2, available in the 6 UN languages) / pdf

Technical reference manual for the standardization of geographical names (New York, 2007) / pdf

Resolutions adopted at the ten UN Conferences on the standardization of geographical names (English (pdf) / French (pdf)