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BGN/PCGN — Board on Geographic Names / Permanent Committee

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The BGN/PCGN system is a joint product of the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) and the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use (PCGN). For over seventy years it has set the de facto romanization standard for English-language newsrooms, diplomats, and cartographers.

Systems
70
With test vectors
69
Source scripts
17
Destination
Latn
Years
1945–2019
Languages
56

Publication timeline

Systems by decade.

  • 1940s 5
  • 1950s 2
  • 1960s 9
  • 1970s 7
  • 1980s 5
  • 1990s 4
  • 2000s 18
  • 2010s 19

Source scripts covered

17 scripts.

  • Arabic Arab 9 systems
  • Armenian Armn 1 system
  • Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Cans 1 system
  • Cyrillic Cyrl 35 systems
  • Devanagari (Nagari) Deva 1 system
  • Ethiopic (Geʻez) Ethi 2 systems
  • Georgian (Mkhedruli and Mtavruli) Geor 2 systems
  • Greek Grek 2 systems
  • Hangul (Hangŭl, Hangeul) Hang 2 systems
  • Han (Simplified variant) Hans 1 system
  • Japanese syllabaries (alias for Hiragana + Katakana) Hrkt 1 system
  • Korean (alias for Hangul + Han) Kore 1 system
  • Latin Latn 6 systems
  • Syriac Syrc 2 systems
  • Thaana Thaa 2 systems
  • Thai Thai 1 system
  • Tibetan Tibt 1 system

Systems

All 70 transliteration systems.