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Information about foreign geographic feature names can be obtained from the GEOnet Names Server (GNS), developed and maintained by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The GNS database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.

Trent Palmer
US BGN Executive Secretary, Foreign Names
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
7500 GEOINT Drive Mail Stop N62
Springfield, VA 22150-7500
Phone/fax: (571) 557-7028 / (571) 558-3113
E-mail: Trent.C.Palmer@nga.mil

 

 

 

 

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