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FCO index of Geographical Names

Publisher
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Updated
8 July 2026
Topic
Government spending
Licence
UK Open Government Licence (OGL)

Summary

The Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) merged with the International Development Office on 1 September 2020. This list of approved British English-language names and descriptive terms for countries is no longer current and is now published by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office.

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Country and Territory Names - More Information HTML – 19/7/2018

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