United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names

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Working Group on Exonyms


Convenor

Kohei Watanabe (Japan), E-mail kw10004@cam.ac.uk

Background

The Working Group was formed in September 2002, as recommended by resolution 4 of the Eighth Conference (Berlin, 27 August - 5 September 2002). The need for such a group had also been expressed at earlier discussions (Frankfurt am Main, 2000 and Berchtesgaden, 2001).

Website

  • The Working Group website can be accessed at http://ungegn.zrc-sazu.si/Home.aspx

    • Work plan
  • Various UNGEGN resolutions now exist on the treatment, use and reduction of exonyms in the context of geographical names standardization and effective UN communication. The Working Group encourages progress in addressing these UNGEGN resolutions. As current concrete projects it aims to elaborate a paper noting the current trends in exonym use as well as an inventory of lists of exonyms. .
    • Publications

    The Classification of Exonyms. Proceedings of the 21th UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting, Riga, 24-26 September 2018. Verlag Dr. Kovač. (= Name & Palce, vol. 8). ISBN 978-3-339-11122-7 and 978-3-339-11123-4
    (eBook)

    Seven publications of articles on exonyms were prepared from presentations to the Working Group meetings.

  • Survey of Exonym Use. Proceedings of the 19th UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting, Prague, 6-8 April 2017. Edited by Peter Jordan, Paul Woodman and Irena Švehlová. Published in 2018. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač. = Name & Place, vol. 7 (EUR 68.-), ISBN 978-3-8300-9997-0.
  • Criteria for the Use of Exonyms. Proceedings of the 17th UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting, Zagreb, 14-16 May 2015. Edited by Peter Jordan and Paul Woodman. Published in 2016. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač. = Name & Place, vol. 6 (EUR 68.-), ISBN 978-3-8300-8946-9.
  • Confirmation of the Definitions. Proceedings of the 16th UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting, Hermagor, 5-7 June 2014. Edited by Peter Jordan and Paul Woodman. Published in 2015. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač. = Name & Place, vol. 4 (EUR 68.-), ISBN 978-3-8300-8422-8.
  • Trends in Exonym Use. Proceedings of the 10th UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting, Tainach, 28-30 April 2010. Edited by Peter Jordan, Hubert Bergmann, Caroline Burgess and Catherine Cheetham. Published in 2011. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač. = Name & Place, vol. 1 (EUR 68.-), ISBN 978-3-8300-5656-0.
  • Exonyms and the International Standardisation of Geographical Names. Approaches towards the Resolution of an Apparent Contradiction. Edited by Peter Jordan, Milan Orožen Adamic, Paul Woodman. Published in 2007, Münster: LIT-Verlag = Wiener Osteuropa Studien, vol. 24 (EUR 24.90), ISBN 978-3-8258-0035-2, ISSN 0946-7246.
  • The Great Toponymic Divide. Reflections on the definition and usage of endonyms and exonyms. Edited by Paul Woodman. Published in 2012. Warszawa: Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography. Free of charge. ISBN 978-83-254-1967-7.
  • The Quest for Definitions. Proceedings of the 14th UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting, Corfu, 23-25 May 2013. Edited by Peter Jordan and Paul Woodman. Published in 2014. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač. = Name & Place, vol. 3 (EUR 68.-), ISBN 978-3-8300-7747-3.
  • The books may be ordered directly from the publisher Verlag Dr. Kovač, Leverkusenstr. 13, D-22761 Hamburg (http://www.verlagdrkovac.de) and from LIT publishers (http://lit-verlag.de/), respectively, or via Peter Jordan, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Urban and Regional Research, Postgasse 7/4/2, A-1010 Wien peter.jordan@oeaw.ac.at
    • Meetings

    The most recent meeting of the Working Group was held in New York, during the first session, New York, 2 May 2019.

    Several other meetings have been held since the Working Group was formed in 2002:

  • Riga, Latvia, Sep 24-26, 2018
  • New York, in association with the 11th Conference, 9 August 2017
  • Prague, Czech Republic, 6-8 April 2017, in conjunction with the UNGEGN WG on Romanization Systems
  • Bangkok, Thailand, in association with the 29th UNGEGN Session, 2016
  • Zagreb, Croatia, May 2015
  • Hermagor, Austria, June 2014
  • Corfu, May 2013, in conjunction with the UNGEGN WG on Toponymic Terminology
  • Gdańsk, Poland, May 2012, in conjunction with the UNGEGN WG on Romanization Systems
  • Vienna [Wien], in association with 26th UNGEGN Session, 2011
  • Tainach, Austria, April 2010
  • Nairobi, Kenya, in association with 25th UNGEGN Session, 2009
  • Timişoara (Romania), in conjunction with a UNGEGN toponymy training course and the ICA Commission on National and Regional Atlases, 2008
  • During the Ninth Conference, New York, 2007
  • Prague [Praha], 2007 in conjunction with the East Central and South-East Europe Division
  • Vienna [Wien], in association with the 24th UNGEGN Session, 2006
  • Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 2005
  • Prague [Praha], 2003 in conjunction with the East Central and South-East Europe Division

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