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]
A third of the costs of the PCGN are met by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and two thirds by the Ministry of Defence. In answer to a 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]
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^Withers, Charles W.J. (2017). "Language geographies". In Kobayash, Audrey Lynn; Richardson, Douglas; Goodchild, Michael F.; Castree, Noel; Marston, Richard A. (eds.). The International Encyclopedia of Geography. Vol. VIII. John Wiley & Sons. p. 4023. ISBN978-0-470-65963-2.
^ ab"Permanent Committee on Geographical Names". UK Government – via www.gov.uk/government/groups.
^Johnson, Jenny Marie (2003). Geographic Information. Greenwood Press. p. 59. ISBN978-1-57356-392-5.
^"Permanent Committee on Geographical Names". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 457. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 20 February 2007.
External linksedit
PCGN Home Page
History of PCGN, published by UK Government
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