Tenth UN Conf. on the Standardization of geographical names – Palestine report

 Report of Palestine 

   Summary** 

 •  Pursuant to a Cabinet decision that was adopted at its weekly meeting No. 63, which was held on 23 August 2010, the Palestinian Committee on Geographical Names was formed. 

 •  Consideration was given to the nature of the information available to institutions on the issue of geographical names, and a compilation was made of the principle sources of such information, which included British 1:100,000, 1:20,000 and 1:10,000 scale maps.

 •  A file on Palestinian towns with more than 100,000 Arab inhabitants has been sent to the geographical names. 

 •  A file on the Arab Palestinian geographical terms has been sent to the geographical names. 

 •  The geographical names in a number of governorates have been transcribed and documented in English and Arabic from the 1:100,000 and 1:20,000 scale maps, using the system of the Gazetteer that was followed in the British maps of the Palestine survey. 

 •  The 1:10,000 scale maps of the governorate of Jerusalem have been dealt with. 

 •  The Palestinian geographical locations in the West Bank of which the Israeli authorities have changed the names to Israeli names have been identified. 

 •  A start has been made on verifying Arabic names in the governorate of Jenin. 

 *  E/CONF.101/1. 

 **  The full report was prepared by Sanaa Birawy (Palestine), Chair of the Palestinian Committee on Geographical Names, and is available in the language of submission only from http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/UNGEGN/ungegnConf10.html . 

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