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

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Ministry of Defence
Published:
30 October 2020
Last updated:
29 September 2026
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  1. Added: 'Pacific Islands: toponymic factfile'.

  2. Updated the toponymic factfile for: Egypt, India, Malta, Norway, Portugal and Yemen.

  3. Added 'Portugal: toponymic factfile'.

  4. Added 'Italy: toponymic factfile'. Updated 'Greece: toponymic factfile' and 'South Korea: toponymic factfile'.

  5. 'Vietnam: toponymic factfile' updated.

  6. The Toponymic Factfiles for Azerbaijan, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Egypt and India have been updated.

  7. Toponymic factfiles updated for Azerbaijan, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Egypt and India.

  8. The toponymic factfile for Belgium has been replaced and a new toponymic factfile for Senegal has been added.

  9. Toponymic factfiles updated for Algeria, Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia and Norway. Toponymic factfile added for Sweden.

  10. 'Bhutan, East Timor, Japan, Norway and South Africa: toponymic factfiles' updated.

  11. 'Ethiopia, Kenya, Syria, Vietnam: toponymic factfile' updated.

  12. 'European Microstates: toponymic factfile' added. 'Iran and Somalia: toponymic factfiles' updated.

  13. 'Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea: toponymic factfile' updated.

  14. 'Belgium, Ireland, Norway and Romania: toponymic factfile' updated.

  15. Czechia: toponymic factfile added. Jordan, Kosovo and Spain toponymic factfiles updated.

  16. Burkina Faso, Egypt, Kosovo and Montenegro toponymic factfiles updated.

  17. Albania, Iraq and Tajikistan updated and Belgium and Canada added.

  18. Niger, Georgia and Burkina Faso profiles updated.

  19. 'Ireland: toponymic factfile' added. 'Turkmenistan: toponymic factfile' and 'Ukraine: toponymic factfile' updated.

  20. Updated 'Kyrgyzstan: toponymic factfile'.

  21. Updated Burundi, Georgia, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Iraq, Syria, Tajikistan and Tunisia toponymic factfiles.

  22. Added: Botswana, Guinea, Malawi, Mauritius, Netherlands and Spain toponymic factfiles. Updated: Equatorial Guinea, Kosovo, Myanmar (Burma), Sao Tome and Principe and Tajikistan toponymic factfiles.

  23. Added 'Algeria: toponymic factfile'. Updated: Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Libya, Malta and Mexico toponymic factfiles.

  24. 'Kingdom of the Netherlands: toponymic factfile' added, 'Angola: toponymic factfile' updated, 'Russia: toponymic factfile' updated.

  25. Added: Brazil, Malta, Mexico, and Sao Tome and Principe. Updated: Mali, Malaysia.

  26. Updated: South Korea, Rwanda, Japan toponymic factfile.

  27. Updated: Indonesia, Mozambique, Qatar and Syria toponymic factfiles.

  28. Updated: Bahrain, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Philippines and Somalia toponymic factfiles.

  29. Updated: Congo, Kuwait, Qatar, South Sudan and Sudan toponymic factfiles.

  30. Updated: Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia toponymic factfiles. Added: Djibouti toponymic factfile.

  31. Added Vietnam, South Africa, Madagascar, Zimbabwe and Guinea-Bissau toponymic factfiles. Updated Norway, Haiti and South Korea toponymic factfiles.

  32. Updated Estonia and Lebanon toponymic factfiles.

  33. Added Equatorial Guinea and Somalia toponymic factfiles, and updated Armenia and Azerbaijan toponymic factfiles.

  34. Added Burkina Faso, Congo, Croatia and Zambia toponymic factfiles, and updated Democratic Republic of the Congo and Yemen toponymic factfiles.

  35. Added Philippines: toponymic factfile and updated Georgia: toponymic factfile and Nigeria: toponymic factfile.

  36. Added toponymic factfiles for Angola, Burundi, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Laos, Maldives, Mozambique and Rwanda. Updated factfiles for Cameroon, Ethiopia, Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand.

  37. Updated Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti and Switzerland: toponymic factfiles.

  38. Added Mauritania and UAE toponymic factfiles.

  39. Updated South Korea: toponymic factfile.

  40. Added: toponymic factfiles for Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Switzerland.

  41. Added: Cameroon toponymic factfile. Updated: Albania, Bangladesh, Brunei and Indonesia toponymic factfiles.

  42. Updated: India: toponymic factfile. Added: South Sudan: toponymic factfile.

  43. Added 'Bhutan: toponymic factfile'.

  44. Added Afghanistan and Sudan toponymic factfiles, and updated Indonesia, Kosovo and Turkey toponymic factfiles.

  45. Added Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Norway toponymic factfiles. Updated Myanmar (Burma): toponymic factfile.

  46. Added Bulgaria and East Timor toponymic factfiles.

  47. Added 'Slovenia: toponymic factfile' and 'Uzbekistan: toponymic factfile', and updated 'Turkmenistan: toponymic factfile'.

  48. 'Kosovo: toponymic factfile' added.

  49. Added Indonesia: toponymic factfile.

  50. Added toponymic factfiles for Oman and Serbia, and updated 'Kazakhstan: toponymic factfile'.

  51. Added 'North Korea: toponymic factfile' and 'South Korea: toponymic factfile'.

  52. Added toponymic factfiles for North Macedonia, Russia and India.

  53. Added factfiles for Japan, Myanmar and Romania.

  54. Updated: Ethiopia and Ukraine factfiles replaced with most recent editions.

  55. Added new factfiles for Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

  56. Addition of ' Kyrgyzstan: toponymic factfile'.

  57. Replaced the Kazakhstan factfile.

  58. Added new factfiles for Tajikistan, Slovakia and Kazakhstan. Replaced factfile for Poland.

  59. Addition of: March 2022 toponymic factfiles documents.

  60. Addition of: Ukraine: toponymic factfile (February 2022).

  61. Added Iraq: toponymic factfile.

  62. Added a new toponymic factfile for Chad and an updated toponymic factfile for Greece.

  63. Added an amended version of the Ethiopia factfile.

  64. Added toponymic factfiles for Cambodia and Ethiopia.

  65. Added Eritrea: toponymic factfile and Latvia: toponymic factfile.

  66. Added updated toponymic factfiles for Armenia and Azerbaijan.

  67. Added toponymic factfiles for Georgia, Lebanon and Turkmenistan.

  68. Added toponymic factfiles for Kuwait and Qatar.

  69. Added new factfiles for Albania and India. Updated factfiles for Bangladesh, Estonia, Lithuania and Romania.

  70. Added new factfiles for: Bangladesh, Estonia, Greece, Lithuania, Poland Romania, Sri Lanka and Ukraine. Updated factfiles for: Armenia and Libya.

  71. First published.

Documents

Afghanistan: toponymic factfile

PDF, 418 KB, 7 pages

Albania: toponymic factfile

PDF, 350 KB, 5 pages

Algeria: toponymic factfile

PDF, 901 KB, 18 pages

Angola: toponymic factfile

PDF, 425 KB, 5 pages

Armenia: toponymic factfile

PDF, 397 KB, 7 pages

Azerbaijan: toponymic factfile

PDF, 616 KB, 7 pages

Bahrain: toponymic factfile

PDF, 411 KB, 6 pages

Bangladesh: toponymic factfile

PDF, 210 KB, 6 pages

Belarus: toponymic factfile

PDF, 557 KB, 12 pages

Belgium: toponymic factfile

PDF, 805 KB, 7 pages

Bhutan: toponymic factfile

PDF, 440 KB, 8 pages

Bosnia and Herzegovina: toponymic factfile

PDF, 359 KB, 11 pages

Botswana: toponymic factfile

PDF, 422 KB, 4 pages

Brazil: toponymic factfile

PDF, 530 KB, 8 pages

Brunei: toponymic factfile

PDF, 238 KB, 4 pages

Burkina Faso: toponymic factfile

PDF, 571 KB, 7 pages

Burundi: toponymic factfile

PDF, 434 KB, 5 pages

Bulgaria: toponymic factfile

PDF, 408 KB, 5 pages

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Cambodia: toponymic factfile

PDF, 516 KB, 7 pages

Cameroon: toponymic factfile

PDF, 459 KB, 6 pages

Canada: toponymic factfile

PDF, 446 KB, 8 pages

Cape Verde: toponymic factfile

PDF, 267 KB, 6 pages

Central African Republic: toponymic factfile

PDF, 963 KB, 8 pages

Chad: toponymic factfile

PDF, 379 KB, 8 pages

Congo: toponymic factfile

PDF, 331 KB, 5 pages

Croatia: toponymic factfile

PDF, 409 KB, 7 pages

Czechia: toponymic factfile

PDF, 491 KB, 6 pages

Democratic Republic of the Congo: toponymic factfile

PDF, 361 KB, 6 pages

Djibouti: toponymic factfile

PDF, 476 KB, 6 pages

East Timor: toponymic factfile

PDF, 341 KB, 5 pages

Egypt: toponymic factfile

PDF, 1.08 MB, 18 pages

Equatorial Guinea: toponymic factfile

PDF, 413 KB, 6 pages

Eritrea: toponymic factfile

PDF, 314 KB, 4 pages

Estonia: toponymic factfile

PDF, 449 KB, 8 pages

Ethiopia: toponymic factfile

PDF, 474 KB, 6 pages

European Microstates: toponymic factfile

PDF, 396 KB, 11 pages

Finland: toponymic factfile

PDF, 246 KB, 6 pages

Gabon: toponymic factfile

PDF, 219 KB, 5 pages

Georgia: toponymic factfile

PDF, 548 KB, 8 pages

Greece: toponymic factfile

PDF, 621 KB, 13 pages

Guinea: toponymic factfile

PDF, 641 KB, 7 pages

Guinea-Bissau: toponymic factfile

PDF, 391 KB, 5 pages

Haiti: toponymic factfile

PDF, 271 KB, 5 pages

India: toponymic factfile

PDF, 524 KB, 13 pages

Indonesia: toponymic factfile

PDF, 384 KB, 8 pages

Iran: toponymic factfile

PDF, 741 KB, 14 pages

Iraq: toponymic factfile

PDF, 983 KB, 20 pages

Ireland: toponymic factfile

PDF, 523 KB, 7 pages

Italy: toponymic factfile

PDF, 668 KB, 7 pages

Ivory Coast: toponymic factfile

PDF, 463 KB, 5 pages

Japan: toponymic factfile

PDF, 469 KB, 10 pages

Jordan: toponymic factfile

PDF, 661 KB, 10 pages

Kazakhstan: toponymic factfile

PDF, 214 KB, 7 pages

Kenya: toponymic factfile

PDF, 503 KB, 6 pages

Kingdom of the Netherlands: Constituent Countries: toponymic factfile

PDF, 408 KB, 8 pages

Kosovo: toponymic factfile

PDF, 382 KB, 8 pages

Kuwait: toponymic factfile

PDF, 515 KB, 10 pages

Kyrgyzstan: toponymic factfile

PDF, 476 KB, 8 pages

Laos: toponymic factfile

PDF, 301 KB, 6 pages

Latvia: toponymic factfile

PDF, 421 KB, 7 pages

Lebanon: toponymic factfile

PDF, 629 KB, 12 pages

Libya: toponymic factfile

PDF, 735 KB, 7 pages

Lithuania: toponymic factfile

PDF, 388 KB, 8 pages

Madagascar: toponymic factfile

PDF, 350 KB, 7 pages

Malawi: toponymic factfile

PDF, 446 KB, 5 pages

Malaysia: toponymic factfile

PDF, 353 KB, 4 pages

Maldives: toponymic factfile

PDF, 262 KB, 6 pages

Mali: toponymic factfile

PDF, 439 KB, 7 pages

Malta: toponymic factfile

PDF, 609 KB, 18 pages

Mauritania: toponymic factfile

PDF, 598 KB, 10 pages

Mauritius: toponymic factfile

PDF, 436 KB, 6 pages

Mexico: toponymic factfile

PDF, 532 KB, 8 pages

Moldova: toponymic factfile

PDF, 333 KB, 5 pages

Montenegro: toponymic factfile

PDF, 431 KB, 7 pages

Mozambique: toponymic factfile

PDF, 387 KB, 5 pages

Myanmar (Burma): toponymic factfile

PDF, 242 KB, 7 pages

Netherlands: toponymic factfile

PDF, 922 KB, 14 pages

Niger: toponymic factfile

PDF, 485 KB, 6 pages

Nigeria: toponymic factfile

PDF, 4.05 MB, 6 pages

North Macedonia: toponymic factfile

PDF, 495 KB, 8 pages

North Korea: toponymic factfile

PDF, 360 KB, 7 pages

Norway: toponymic factfile

PDF, 713 KB, 7 pages

Oman: toponymic factfile

PDF, 434 KB, 9 pages

Pacific Islands: toponymic factfile

PDF, 668 KB, 10 pages

Pakistan: toponymic factfile

PDF, 399 KB, 6 pages

Philippines: toponymic factfile

PDF, 450 KB, 15 pages

Poland: toponymic factfile

PDF, 430 KB, 5 pages

Portugal: toponymic factfile

PDF, 580 KB, 6 pages

Qatar: toponymic factfile

PDF, 399 KB, 9 pages

Romania: toponymic factfile

PDF, 393 KB, 8 pages

Russia: toponymic factfile

PDF, 370 KB, 12 pages

Rwanda: toponymic factfile

PDF, 366 KB, 6 pages

Sao Tome and Principe: toponymic factfile

PDF, 346 KB, 6 pages

Saudi Arabia: toponymic factfile

PDF, 729 KB, 10 pages

Senegal: toponymic factfile

PDF, 554 KB, 6 pages

Serbia: toponymic factfile

PDF, 301 KB, 12 pages

Slovakia: toponymic factfile

PDF, 317 KB, 4 pages

Slovenia: toponymic factfile

PDF, 375 KB, 11 pages

South Africa: toponymic factfile

PDF, 597 KB, 8 pages

South Korea: toponymic factfile

PDF, 440 KB, 6 pages

Spain: toponymic factfile

PDF, 776 KB, 10 pages

Sri Lanka: toponymic factfile

PDF, 240 KB, 4 pages

Somalia: toponymic factfile

PDF, 540 KB, 11 pages

South Sudan: toponymic factfile

PDF, 376 KB, 6 pages

Sudan: toponymic factfile

PDF, 378 KB, 6 pages

Sweden: toponymic factfile

PDF, 591 KB, 6 pages

Switzerland: toponymic factfile

PDF, 531 KB, 7 pages

Syria: toponymic factfile

PDF, 955 KB, 17 pages

Tajikistan: toponymic factfile

PDF, 501 KB, 13 pages

Thailand: toponymic factfile

PDF, 678 KB, 11 pages

Tunisia: toponymic factfile

PDF, 758 KB, 12 pages

Turkey: toponymic factfile

PDF, 485 KB, 13 pages

Turkmenistan: toponymic factfile

PDF, 570 KB, 11 pages

Ukraine: toponymic factfile

PDF, 396 KB, 8 pages

United Arab Emirates (UAE): toponymic factfile

PDF, 1.06 MB, 7 pages

Uzbekistan: toponymic factfile

PDF, 299 KB, 7 pages

Vietnam: toponymic factfile

PDF, 585 KB, 8 pages

Yemen: toponymic factfile

PDF, 1.09 MB, 26 pages

Zambia: toponymic factfile

PDF, 327 KB, 4 pages

Zimbabwe: toponymic factfile

PDF, 311 KB, 4 pages

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.

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