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Goals
- 1. Standardization.
- 2. Dissemination.
- 3. Romanization.
Resources
Meetings and events
Upcoming
- 2025 session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names 28 April - 2 May 2025 UNHQ, New York
Recent
- International Training on Toponymy "Geographical Names as Cultural Heritage" 19-23 June 2023 Bali, Indonesia Contact: (Email:toponymytraining@big.go.id)
- 2023 session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names 1 - 5 May 2023 Conference Room 4, UNHQ, New York
- The Ninth Arab Conference of Arab Experts on Geographical Names, entitled:Geospatial integration between name and Location "importance and impact" 5-7 December 2022 Contact: ADEGN (Email:contact@adegn.info)
- UNGEGN Webinar Series 30 September 2022 Contact: Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu (Email:Pier-Giorgio.Zaccheddu@bkg.bund.de)
- UNGEGN Exonym and Terminology Working Groups Meeting 31 August to 3 September 2022 Ljubljana, Slovenia Contact: Kohei Watanabe (Email: kw10004@cam.ac.uk)
- ECSEED meeting 18 May 2022, 10:00am zech Cadastral and Land Surveying Office, Prague, Czech Republic
- UNGEGN Webinar "Developing Digital Gazetteers Using Free and Open-Source Software" Tuesday 10 May 2022, 7:00am - 8:30 am (NY time). Contact: Cecille Blake, blake1@un.org