The United Nations Group of Experts in Geographical Names (UNGEGN) has issued a new UNGEGN Bulletin (UNGEGN Bulletin No. 63, entitled "Geographical names as indicators of the environment".
This bulletin, which is issued every six months, has already been circulated to all member countries and was also posted on the UN website.
This publication is mainly concerned with articles on issues and experiences of member countries on the standardization of geographical names.
Pages 15-16 include a short article on the subject, sent by the President of the Cyprus Permanent Committee for the Standardization of Geographical Names (SCENIHR) Mr. Andreas Hadjiraftis for Cyprus. Regarding the cover of the magazine, the Cypriot proposal was accepted, for the ninth time in a row. On page 5 there is a reference to both the Cyprus article and the cover.
As stated in the article: "Geographical names are an important part of our geographical and cultural environment. They identify geographical entities of different kinds and represent irreplaceable cultural and environmental values vital to people's sense of well-being and history.
Geographical names in Cyprus are therefore of great importance. Society has a responsibility to respect the heritage of geographical names and to ensure that the design and use of place names is carried out in such a way as to ensure their preservation."
All official geographical names are included in the Big Toponymic Dictionary at A Complete Gazetteer of Cyprus.
At https:/unstats.un.org/unsd/ungegn/pubs/#bulletin all issues of the journal from 1988 to 2022 are listed. Previous editions still include 12 articles concerning Cyprus on other similar topics (see nos. 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 61 and 62).
The Republic of Cyprus actively participates in the United Nations meetings and conferences held in New York through the Chairman of the Permanent Committee on Standardization of Geographical Names of Cyprus. For more details, interested parties may visit www.geonoma.gov.cy.
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