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UNGEGN List of Country Names * UNITED NATIONS WORKING PAPER GROUP OF EXPERTS NO. 54 ON GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES Twenty-sixth session Vienna, 2-6 May 2011 Item 12 of the Provisional Agenda Activities relating to the Working Group on Country Names UNGEGN list of country names * ` _______________________________ * Prepared by the UNGEGN Working Group on Country Names UNGEGN List of Country Names Introduction During its 16th Session (New York, 1992), the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) re- convened its working group to establish the official forms of country names. The new working group was given the task of updating a list of country names drawn up in 1986. This document is the successor to that first effort and has been compiled using Unicode-compliant fonts throughout. It contains entries for the 193 countries generally recognized by the international community to be independent states. It is current as of October 2007. All of the countries listed in this document are United Nations member states, with the exception of the Holy See, which has permanent observer status in the UN. The principal aim of this document is to present country names in the language or languages used in an official capacity within each country in the world. These names, presented in the National Official name section, are provided in two forms: the short names, which may or may not be official, are the ones in common use, while the formal names are those used in an official diplomatic context. The form of the article is provided where necessary to indicate gender. The authority for country names used officially in the United Nations is the UN Terminology Section, which maintains the United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database (or UNTERM), available on the Internet at http://unterm.un.org. This database contains records for each country that list, among other things, the short and formal country names in the six official languages of the UN. This information has been extracted from the UNTERM database and, with some minor modifications, is presented in the UN Official names section of this document. In this document, languages written in non-Roman scripts are presented in their native scripts whenever technically possible, and then these scripts are romanized according to systems approved by the United Nations (see the website of the UNGEGN Working Group on Romanization Systems at http://www.eki.ee/wgrs/ for the latest Report on the Current Status of United Nations Romanization Systems for Geographical Names). These languages include Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Khmer, Macedonian Cyrillic, Nepali, Persian, Russian, Serbian, Tamil, Thai, and Urdu. For those languages without a UN-approved romanization system, the most widely used international system is applied and its name listed in the Notes section of the document. Some country names used by national authorities are different from those used by the local authorities or by the UN. These differences are noted for information purposes in a section labeled Names used by a national authority. However, only those national authorities that have requested that a reference be included are represented in this section. A question mark [?] denotes the absence of a known established name in a given language. The UNGEGN Working Group on Country Names welcomes any comments to improve or update this document. Please forward these comments to the convenor by electronic mail at [email protected] or by post to Leo Dillon / INR/GGI Room 6741 HST / U.S. Department of State / Washington DC 20520-6510 / U.S.A. Explanation of entries 1. Title section contains: 1.a: two-letter country code from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO 3166). 1.b: country name, as found in the English “Short Name” field of the UNTERM website; 2. National Official name section gives the name of the country in the language(s) used in official government business within that country. 2.a: language code and name from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO 639-1), with the name in English. Where codes are not available, language names are given in English from the best available sources; 2.b: short name of country (name used in colloquial or informal contexts); 2.c: formal name of country. 3. UN Official name section gives the names used officially within the United Nations in the six official UN languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic. Other than a few minor modifications, these names are the same as those found in the UNTERM website. 4. Names used by a national authority section provides an opportunity for countries whose national authorities use a country name different from the name used officially in the UN to make reference to a document or Internet website address where that information is available. 5. Notes section contains information relating to languages, transliteration systems used, reference works, and technical issues. List of Abbreviations: BGN United States Board on Geographic Names PCGN Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use 1 AF AFGHANISTAN Language Short name Formal name National Official م ُْجهمو ِرئ ِإ ْسﻻ ِمئ أَ ْف َغاِو ْس خَان أَ ْف َغاِو ْس خَان Jomh rī-ye Esl mī - ye fgh nest n Dari fgh nest n ِد أَ ْف َغاِو ْس خَان ِإ ْسﻻ ِمی م ُْجهمو ِرًَت أَ ْف َغاِو ْس خَان ps: Pashto fgh nist n (1) fgh nist n Isl mī Jumh rīyat (Dê) (1) UN Official English Afghanistan Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (the) French Afghanistan (l’) (masc.) République islamique d’Afghanistan (la) Spanish fganistán (el) República Islámica del fganistán (la) Russian Афганистан Исламская Республика Афганистан Chinese 阿富汗 阿富汗伊斯兰共和国 م ُْجهمو ِرًَة أَ ْف َغاِو ْس خَان اَﻹ ْسﻻ ِمَِة أَ ْف َغاِو ْس خَان Arabic Name used by a national authority Spain: www.ign.es (“Toponimia y Nomenclátores”) Notes (1) Romanization in the BGN/PCGN 1968 Pashto system 2 AL ALBANIA Language Short name Formal name National Official Shqipëri (1) sq: Albanian Shqipëria (2) Republika e Shqipërisë UN Official English Albania Republic of Albania (the) French Albanie (l’) (fém.) République d’Albanie (la) Spanish Albania República de lbania (la) Russian Албания Республика Албания Chinese 阿尔巴尼亚 阿尔巴尼亚共和国 ُجهورًة أًباهَا أًباهَا Arabic Notes (1) Indefinite Short name, (2) Definite Short name 3 DZ ALGERIA Language Short name Formal name National Official اًَْ مج ْمهمو ِرًَة اًَْ َج َزائِ ِرًَة اَ ِّدلميم ْل َرا ِط َة اًَ َض ْعِب َة اًَْ َج َزائِر ar: Arabic l Jaz ’ ir l Jumh r iyyah al Jaz ’iriyyah ad Dīmuqr iy yah ash Sha‘biyyah UN Official English Algeria People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria (the) French lgérie (l’) (fém.) République algérienne démocratique et populaire (la) Spanish Argelia República rgelina Democrática y Popular (la) Russian Алжир Алжирская Народная Демократическая Республика Chinese 阿尔及利亚 阿尔及利亚民主人民共和国 اجل هورًة اجلزائرًة اّدلميلراطَة اًضعبَة اجلزائر Arabic Notes 4 AD ANDORRA Language Short name Formal name National Official ca: Catalan Andorra Principat d’Andorra UN Official English Andorra Principality of Andorra (the) French Andorre (l’) (fém.) Principauté d’Andorre (la) Spanish Andorra Principado de Andorra (el) Russian Андорра Княжество Андорра Chinese 安道尔 安道尔公国 إمارة أهدورا أهدورا Arabic Notes AO ANGOLA Language Short name Formal name National Official pt: Portuguese Angola República de ngola (a) UN Official English Angola Republic of Angola (the) French Angola (l’) (masc.) République d’Angola (la) Spanish Angola República de ngola (la) Russian Ангола Республика Ангола Chinese 安哥拉 安哥拉共和国 ُجهورًة أهغوﻻ أهغوﻻ Arabic Notes 5 AG ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Language Short name Formal name National Official en: English Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda UN Official English Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda French Antigua-et-Barbuda (fém.) Antigua-et-Barbuda (fém.) Spanish Antigua y Barbuda Antigua y Barbuda Russian Антигуа и Барбуда Антигуа и Барбуда Chinese 安提瓜和巴布达 安提瓜和巴布达 أهدِغوا وبربودا أهدِغوا وبربودا Arabic Notes AR ARGENTINA Language Short name Formal name National Official es: Spanish Argentina (la) República rgentina (la) UN Official English Argentina Argentine Republic (the) French Argentine (l’) (fém.) République argentine (la) Spanish Argentina (la) República rgentina (la) Russian Аргентина Аргентинская Республика Chinese 阿根廷 阿根廷共和国 ُجهورًة اﻷرجٌخني اﻷرجٌخني Arabic Notes 6 AM ARMENIA Language Short name Formal name National Official Հայաստան Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն hy: Armenian Hayastan (1) Hayastani Hanrapetut’yun UN Official English Armenia Republic of Armenia (the) French rménie (l’) (fém.) République d’ rménie (la) Spanish Armenia República de rmenia (la) Russian Армения Республика Армения Chinese 亚美尼亚 亚美尼亚共和国 ُجهورًة أرمِيَا أرمِيَا Arabic Notes (1) Local form resulting from the Armenian alphabet, romanization in the Eastern Armenian system and in the BGN/PCGN 1981 system AU AUSTRALIA Language Short name Formal name National Official en: English Australia Commonwealth of Australia (the) UN Official English Australia Australia French Australie (l’) (fém.) Australie (l’) (fém.) Spanish Australia Australia Russian Австралия Австралия Chinese 澳大利亚 澳大利亚 أسرتاًَا أسرتاًَا Arabic Name used by a France: http://www.cnig.gouv.fr/ national authority upload/ressource/r1169737466.PDF Notes 7 AT AUSTRIA Language Short name Formal name National Official de: German Österreich Republik Österreich (die) UN Official English Austria Republic of Austria (the) French Autriche (l’) (fém.) République d’Autriche (la) Spanish Austria República de ustria
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