Geographical names index – GOV.UK

The UK Overseas Territory names attachment has been reviewed and updated: rows for ‘Akrotiri’ and ‘Dhekelia’ have been replaced with a new single row: ‘The UK Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia’.

Adding Palestine to country names list.

The official name for Libya changed to ‘State of Libya’. The official name for Tunisia changed to ‘Republic of Tunisia’.

Updated Micronesia to Federated States of Micronesia.

New link to Welsh language international place-names

Country names data updated: the official name of ‘Republic of Iceland’ has been changed to ‘Iceland’.

Country names list updated: official name of Turkey changed to ‘Republic of Türkiye’.

Update to UK Overseas Territory names list.

New list added: UK Crown Dependencies.

Country names file amended: The Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal amended to Nepal

Country names updated.

New guidance added on the list of approved British English language names and descriptive terms for countries.

Country names updated

Updated country name Macedonia to North Macedonia

Updated list of country names

Country names list updated.

Country names and Country and Territory names (HTML) files updated.

Updated lists of countries and territories.

FCO geographical names index – updated attachment.

Updated with latest information.

Updated with amended information.

Update of both documents.

First published.

Updated Document.