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Geographic Names Standardization Policies By Country In partnership with the United States Board on Geographic Names, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency promulgates policies on geographic names standardization for all of the countries, dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty of the world. These policies describe the methods that are used to arrive at standard spellings of geographic names from the country or dependency in question. Per Congressional statute, the standard spellings are mandated for use by all US government employees. Click on a link below to view the standardization policy for that country.




Afghanistan .pdf
Indonesia .pdf
Iran .pdf



 
Point of Contact: GEOnet Names Server
NGA Bethesda
phone 301-227-3059, DSN 287-3059
geonames@nga.mil

Document last modified October 19, 2009

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