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Toponymic factfiles

Toponymic (place name) factfile papers produced by the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN).

Documents

Afghanistan: toponymic factfile

Albania: toponymic factfile

Algeria: toponymic factfile

Angola: toponymic factfile

Armenia: toponymic factfile

Azerbaijan: toponymic factfile

Bahrain: toponymic factfile

Bangladesh: toponymic factfile

Belarus: toponymic factfile

Bhutan: toponymic factfile

Brazil: toponymic factfile

Brunei: toponymic factfile

Bulgaria: toponymic factfile

Burkina Faso: toponymic factfile

Burundi: toponymic factfile

Cambodia: toponymic factfile

Cameroon: toponymic factfile

Cape Verde: toponymic factfile

Chad: toponymic factfile

Congo: toponymic factfile

Croatia: toponymic factfile

Djibouti: toponymic factfile

East Timor: toponymic factfile

Egypt: toponymic factfile

Eritrea: toponymic factfile

Estonia: toponymic factfile

Ethiopia: toponymic factfile

Finland: toponymic factfile

Gabon: toponymic factfile

Georgia: toponymic factfile

Greece: toponymic factfile

Guinea-Bissau: toponymic factfile

Haiti: toponymic factfile

India: toponymic factfile

Indonesia: toponymic factfile

Iran: toponymic factfile

Iraq: toponymic factfile

Ivory Coast: toponymic factfile

Japan: toponymic factfile

Jordan: toponymic factfile

Kazakhstan: toponymic factfile

Kenya: toponymic factfile

Kosovo: toponymic factfile

Kuwait: toponymic factfile

Kyrgyzstan: toponymic factfile

Laos: toponymic factfile

Latvia: toponymic factfile

Lebanon: toponymic factfile

Libya: toponymic factfile

Lithuania: toponymic factfile

Madagascar: toponymic factfile

Malaysia: toponymic factfile

Maldives: toponymic factfile

Mali: toponymic factfile

Malta: toponymic factfile

Mauritania: toponymic factfile

Mexico: toponymic factfile

Moldova: toponymic factfile

Montenegro: toponymic factfile

Mozambique: toponymic factfile

Niger: toponymic factfile

Nigeria: toponymic factfile

North Korea: toponymic factfile

Norway: toponymic factfile

Oman: toponymic factfile

Pakistan: toponymic factfile

Philippines: toponymic factfile

Poland: toponymic factfile

Qatar: toponymic factfile

Romania: toponymic factfile

Russia: toponymic factfile

Rwanda: toponymic factfile

Saudi Arabia: toponymic factfile

Serbia: toponymic factfile

Slovakia: toponymic factfile

Slovenia: toponymic factfile

South Africa: toponymic factfile

South Korea: toponymic factfile

Sri Lanka: toponymic factfile

Somalia: toponymic factfile

South Sudan: toponymic factfile

Sudan: toponymic factfile

Switzerland: toponymic factfile

Syria: toponymic factfile

Tajikistan: toponymic factfile

Thailand: toponymic factfile

Tunisia: toponymic factfile

Turkey: toponymic factfile

Turkmenistan: toponymic factfile

Ukraine: toponymic factfile

Uzbekistan: toponymic factfile

Vietnam: toponymic factfile

Yemen: toponymic factfile

Zambia: toponymic factfile

Zimbabwe: toponymic factfile

Details

Toponymic factfiles 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 30 October 2020
Last updated 53 JuneJuly 2025 + show all updates
  1. 'Kingdom of the Netherlands: toponymic factfile' added, 'Angola: toponymic factfile' updated, 'Russia: toponymic factfile' updated.

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