UNITED NATIONS GROUP OF EXPERTS ON GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES (UNGEGN)

Working Group on Romanization Systems

Report on the Current Status of United Nations Romanization Systems for Geographical Names

Version 2.2. January 2003 [published 2003-02-20]

• Introduction [pdf/html] (includes updates from Version 1.3 to 2.1 and from 2.1 to 2.2)
• List of languages, countries and romanization systems [pdf/html]
• Romanization systems
  • Languages/scripts covered by systems recommended by the United Nations:
    Amharic [pdf/html] | Arabic [pdf/html] | Assamese [pdf/html] | Bengali [pdf/html] | Bulgarian [pdf/html] | Chinese [pdf/html] | Greek [pdf/html] | Gujarati [pdf/html] | Hebrew [pdf/html] | Hindi [pdf/html] | Kannada [pdf/html] | Khmer [pdf/html] | Macedonian Cyrillic [pdf/html] | Malayalam [pdf/html] | Marathi [pdf/html] | Mongolian (in China) [pdf/html] | Nepali [pdf/html] | Oriya [pdf/html] | Persian [pdf/html] | Punjabi [pdf/html] | Russian [pdf/html] | Serbian [pdf/html] | Tamil [pdf/html] | Telugu [pdf/html] | Thai* [pdf/html] | Tibetan [pdf/html] | Uighur [pdf/html] | Urdu [pdf/html]
    * Note: Following comments from the Royal Thai Survey Department in May 2003, this section was updated and published, with two errors corrected, on 5 May, 2004.
  • Other languages/scripts:
    Armenian [pdf/html] | Burmese [pdf/html] | Byelorussian [pdf/html] | Dzongkha [pdf/html] | Georgian [pdf/html] | Japanese [pdf/html] | Kazakh [pdf/html] | Kirghiz [pdf/html] | Korean [pdf/html] | Lao [pdf/html] | Maldivian [pdf/html] | Mongolian (Cyrillic) [pdf/html] | Pashto [pdf/html] | Sinhalese [pdf/html] | Tajik [pdf/html] | Tigrinya [pdf/html] | Ukrainian [pdf/html]
  • Annex. Languages that have recently adopted Roman alphabets:
    Azerbaijani [pdf/html] | Turkmen [pdf/html] | Uzbek [pdf/html]
    Note: If you experience difficulties in viewing the non-Roman script pages in HTML format please refer to the appropriate Unicode pages for further assistance.

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