The Board was given authority to resolve questions about geographic names.

For more details on practice with geographic names, see the relevant section below.

"When geographic names are used, they will not locate a site within an area any smaller than 100 square miles."

It is established practice that we use the geographic names of counterparts.

Spain is another country where geographic names are preferred for wine.

Today students may enroll in any nation, although the nations still preserve their geographic names.

Later it lost its ecclesiastical meaning and became a fully geographic name.

The spelling of geographic names is sometimes divergent from English.

A. There is no single, absolute standard or reference we use to determine when to adopt a new geographic name.

The database often has other useful information, such as the history of geographic names, and their use in history.