United Nations Statistical Commission

United Nations Statistical Commission or United Nations Statistical Office or UNSCO (also known as the Statistics Division) is a Functional Commission of the UN Economic and Social Council.

One of their best known subunits is the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN), also known as the United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographic Names (UNCSGN). This unit attempts to standardize the names of locations across languages, alphabets, and cultures.

The sixth UN Conference on the Standardization of Geographic Names was in 1992, the seventh in 1997, and the eighth in 2002. One issue addressed at these conferences was the Dispute over the name of the Sea of Japan.

External links

• Home page for Statistical Commission
• Official home page for UNGEGN
• Website for UNGEGN Working Group on Romanization Systems