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Information papers produced by the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN).

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Information papers produced by the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN). Various relevant documents published before July 2014 can found in the UK Government Web Archive. Any papers not in PDF format can be obtained from PCGN in paper copy. Please note that these documents are Crown Copyright

Updates to this page

Published 16 October 2014
Last updated 16 May 2023 + show all updates
  1. Removed 'Indonesia: administrative divisions' and 'Sudan: administrative divisions' as up-to-date information on these regions can be found on https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/toponymic-factfiles.

  2. 'North Korea: information paper' updated.

  3. Addition of: 'Ukraine: Crimea, second-order administrative divisions' and 'Moldova: Toponymic notes on Transnistria'.

  4. Added updated information paper for North Korea.

  5. Added an updated version of Crimea ADM2s (April): small change to 2 footnotes.

  6. Added an updated version of Crimea: second order administrative divisions.

  7. Added Morocco: administrative structure (February 2015).

  8. Added UK Overseas Territories: Toponymic Information.

  9. Added an updated version of Ukraine: toponymic information paper.

  10. Added North Korea: information paper (November 2017).

  11. Updated Sudan: administrative divisions document.

  12. Added Czechia: New English-language country name for the Czech Republic.

  13. Added Ivory Coast: administrative structure and Indonesia: administrative divisions.

  14. Added Liberia, Russia and updated Sudan administrative divisions information.

  15. Added Karnataka State, India: name changes.

  16. Added Sierra Leone: administrative divisions.

  17. First published.

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