UNITED NATIONS GROUP OF EXPERTS ON GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES (UNGEGN)

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Report on the Current Status of United Nations Romanization Systems for Geographical Names

See also an important note on links and report versions.

Version 4.0. February 2013 [published 2013-02-26]

• Contains updates published after the 9th and 10th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (2007, 2012)
• Romanization systems
• Languages/scripts covered by systems recommended by the United Nations:
  Belarusian [pdf/html] | Bulgarian [pdf/html] | Hebrew [pdf/html] | Macedonian Cyrillic [pdf/html] | Nepali [pdf/html] | Persian [pdf/html] | Ukrainian [pdf/html]


• Other languages/scripts:
  Georgian [pdf/html] | Tigrinya [pdf/html]

Version 3.0. March 2008 – November 2010

• Contains updates published after the 9th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (2007)

Version 2.3. December 2006

• Updated version, published in a UN publication: Technical reference manual for the standardization of geographical names (2007; there are updates or changes in the sections for Amharic, Bulgarian, Hebrew, Khmer, Russian; Korean, Lao, Sinhalese, etc.)

Version 2.2. January 2003 [published 2003-02-20]

• Introduction [pdf/html] (includes updates from Version 1.3 to 2.1 and from 2.1 to 2.2)
• List of languages, countries and romanization systems [pdf/html]
• Romanization systems (systems that are revised in Version 4.0 above, are indicated in grey)
  • Languages/scripts covered by systems recommended by the United Nations:
    Amharic [pdf/html] | Arabic [pdf/html] | Assamese [pdf/html] | Bengali [pdf/html] | ^ Bulgarian [pdf/html] | Chinese [pdf/html] | Greek [pdf/html] | Gujarati [pdf/html] | ^ Hebrew [pdf/html] | Hindi [pdf/html] | Kannada [pdf/html] | Khmer [pdf/html] | ^ Macedonian Cyrillic [pdf/html] | Malayalam [pdf/html] | Marathi [pdf/html] | Mongolian (in China) [pdf/html] | ^ Nepali [pdf/html] | Oriya [pdf/html] | ^ Persian [pdf/html] | Punjabi [pdf/html] | Russian [pdf/html] | Serbian [pdf/html] | Tamil [pdf/html] | Telugu [pdf/html] | Thai* [pdf/html] | Tibetan [pdf/html] | Uighur [pdf/html] | Urdu [pdf/html]
    * Note: Following comments from the Royal Thai Survey Department in May 2003, this section was updated and published, with two errors corrected, on 5 May, 2004.
  
  
  • Other languages/scripts:
    Armenian [pdf/html] | Burmese* [pdf/html] | ^ Byelorussian [pdf/html] | Dzongkha [pdf/html] | ^ Georgian [pdf/html] | Japanese [pdf/html] | Kazakh [pdf/html] | Kirghiz [pdf/html] | Korean [pdf/html] | Lao [pdf/html] | Maldivian [pdf/html] | Mongolian (Cyrillic) [pdf/html] | Pashto [pdf/html] | Sinhalese [pdf/html] | Tajik [pdf/html] | ^ Tigrinya [pdf/html] | ^ Ukrainian [pdf/html]
    * Note: Updated to Unicode 5.1 (2012-06-14)
  
  
  • Annex. Languages that have recently adopted Roman alphabets:
    Azerbaijani [pdf/html] | Turkmen [pdf/html] | Uzbek [pdf/html]
  
  
  • Note: If you experience difficulties in viewing the non-Roman script pages in HTML format please refer to the appropriate Unicode pages for further assistance.

Version 2.1. June 2002

See technical papers, CRP. 81, published at the UNGEGN website.

Version 1.3. March 2000

Updated: 2012-06-14