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Figure 1:
Countries members of the ECSEED.
Croatia is chairing East Central and South-East Europe Division
(ECSEED) of the UNGEGN since Ninth United Nations Conference on
the Standardization of Geographical Names in 2007. State Geodetic
Administration and Croatian Geodetic Institute are institutions responsible
ECSEED chairing. More about ECSEED activities could be found on the
ECSEED Division web site (
http://ungegn.cgi.hr
).
3- Ungegn world geographical names database
UNGEGN World Geographical Names database contains basic geographic
names for each UN member country. It is multilingual, multiscriptual geo-
referenced geographical names database. The user interface has been
published on the Internet address
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo
. It
contains the names of the countries in the short and formal form, names of
the main and major cities (population over 100 000) in the national and six
official UN languages. It also contains language and sound files with
pronunciation of major cities. State Geodetic Administration and Croatian
Geodetic Institute takes care of the Croatian data in the UNGEGN World
Geographical Names Database
.
