LAW OF UKRAINE

of May 31, 2005 No. 2604-IV

About geographical names

This Law determines the legal basis of regulation of the relations and activities connected with establishment of names of geographical objects, and also regulation, accounting, registration, use and preserving geographical names.

Establishment of names of geographical objects, and also their regulation, accounting, registration, use and preserving is important for the solution of tasks of homeland security, development of economy, science and education, the state construction, international cooperation, and also in everyday life of citizens.

Article 1. Main terms

In this Law the stated below terms are used in the following value:

geographical names - own names of geographical objects which are applied to their recognition and establishment of difference from other objects;

geographical objects - the complete and rather stable formations of Earth of natural or anthropogenous origin existing or existing in the past and which are characterized by certain location:

orographical - continents, mountains, ridges, rocks, gorges, glaciers, plains, lowlands, ravines, beams, islands, braids, volcanoes, caves, etc.;

hydrographic - oceans, the seas, gulfs, passages, estuaries, lakes, swamps, water storage basins, the rivers, channels, etc.;

administrative-territorial - the states, the autonomous territories, areas, areas, the cities, settlements, sat down, etc.;

social and economic - railway stations, traveling, ports, piers, the airports, etc.;

natural and reserved - natural parks, reserves, wildlife areas, reserved natural boundaries and other similar objects;

the name and renaming of geographical objects - assignment of names to geographical objects relevant organs of the government or local government bodies;

regulation of geographical names - the choice of the most used and acceptable geographical names and determination of their writing in language in which they are used, on statutory rules.

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