{"id":186469,"date":"2012-07-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T22:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=186469"},"modified":"2019-03-11T22:04:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T22:04:59","slug":"auto-insert-186469","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-186469\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenth UN Conf. on the Standardization of geographical names – Palestine report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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 Report of Palestine<\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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   Summary<\/strong><\/span>**<\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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 •  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.<\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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 •  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. <\/p><\/div>\n

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 •  A file on Palestinian towns with more than 100,000 Arab inhabitants has been sent to the geographical names.<\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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 •  A file on the Arab Palestinian geographical terms has been sent to the geographical names.<\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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 •  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 <\/span>Gazetteer<\/i><\/span> that was followed in the British maps of the Palestine survey.<\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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 •  The 1:10,000 scale maps of the governorate of Jerusalem have been dealt with.<\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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 •  The Palestinian geographical locations in the West Bank of which the Israeli authorities have changed the names to Israeli names have been identified.<\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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 •  A start has been made on verifying Arabic names in the governorate of Jenin.<\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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 *  E\/CONF.101\/1.<\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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 **  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 <\/span>http:\/\/unstats.un.org\/unsd\/geoinfo\/UNGEGN\/ungegnConf10.html<\/u><\/a> .<\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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 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 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1323],"document-source":[1953],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[3273,2297],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-186469","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-report","document-source-economic-and-social-council-ecosoc","document-subject-demographic-issues","document-subject-land","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/186469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/186469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=186469"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=186469"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=186469"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=186469"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=186469"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=186469"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=186469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}