The Sixth Conference was held in the Jordanian capital, Amman, from July 10–13, 2012, at the invitation of the Royal Jordanian Geographic Center. The conference aimed to:
– provide an introduction to geographic names and their importance.
– document geographic names (map dictionaries, atlases, etc.etc.)
– Exchanging expertise and information among Arab countries in the field of geographical names.
– Keeping pace with technological developments related to geographical names.
– Adopting a unified Arab system for transcribing Arabic characters (romanization) into Roman (Latin) characters, based on standard Arabic and neutralizing local dialects.
The Sixth Conference on Geographical Names
