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Goals
- 1. Standardization.
- 2. Dissemination.
- 3. Romanization.
26th meeting of the Working Group on Exonyms, Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre, and Institute of Ethnology,
Czech Academy of Sciences Prague, Czech Republic
14 - 15 May 2024
Resources
World Geographical Names
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
- 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)
- 2023 session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, 1 - 5 May 2023, 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", 10 May 2022, Contact: Cecille Blake, blake1@un.org