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UNGEGN Expert Consultation and Meeting on Exonyms and Cultural Heritage - Incorporating the 1st in-person meeting of the revitalized UNGEGN WG on Geographical Names as Cultural Heritage, the 28th Meeting of the UNGEGN WG on Exonyms, and the 2026 GeoNames Symposium
Alpen Adria Hotel & Spa, Hermagor-Pressegger See, Austria 12-16 October 2026
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Upcoming
- UNGEGN Expert Consultation and Meeting on Exonyms and Cultural Heritage - Incorporating the 1st in-person meeting of the revitalized UNGEGN WG on Geographical Names as Cultural Heritage, the 28th Meeting of the UNGEGN WG on Exonyms, and the 2026 GeoNames Symposium’, 12-16 October 2026, Alpen Adria Hotel & Spa (https://www.hotelkaernten.com/), Hermagor-Pressegger See, Austria
- 2027 session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, 3 -7 May 2027, UNHQ, New York
Recent
- 2025 session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, 28 April - 2 May 2025, UNHQ, New York
- 26th meeting of the Exonyms Working Group, 14 - 15 May 2024, Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre, and Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences Prague, Czech Republic Contact: Kohei Watanabe (Email:kw10004@cam.ac.uk)
- International Training on Toponymy "Geographical Names as Cultural Heritage", 19-23 June 2023, Bali, Indonesia Contact: (Email:toponymytraining@big.go.id)
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