Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use

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The Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN) is an independent inter-departmental body in the United Kingdom established in 1919.[1] Its function is to establish standard names for places outside the UK, for the use of the British government.[2] The Committee has collaborated with the Foreign Names Committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names to agree a joint romanization system, first published in 1994 as the Romanization Systems and Roman-Script Spelling Conventions.[3]

The members of the PCGN are:

Hydrographic Office, Ordnance Survey, Royal Geographical Society and Royal Scottish Geographical Society.[2]

A third of the costs of the PCGN are met by the

parliamentary question in 2007, the cost of the PCGN to the FCO was disclosed as being £59,826.83 for the 2005/2006 financial year. This results in a total cost in that financial year of £179,480.49.[4]

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-470-65963-2
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  2. ^ a b "Permanent Committee on Geographical Names". UK Government – via www.gov.uk/government/groups.
  3. ISBN 978-1-57356-392-5
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  4. ^ "Permanent Committee on Geographical Names". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 457. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 20 February 2007.

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