{"id":336,"date":"2015-05-20T12:45:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/?page_id=336"},"modified":"2015-05-20T12:45:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:45:03","slug":"geographical-locations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/capitalisation\/proper-nouns\/geographical-locations\/","title":{"rendered":"Geographical locations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Capitalise the names of all countries, towns and other geographical terms commonly accepted to be proper names.<\/p>\n

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\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nC<\/span>atalonia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nB<\/span>arcelona<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nthe I<\/span>berianP<\/span>eninsula<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

The names of geographical features are also capitalised. The generic term (lake<\/em>, sea<\/em>, river<\/em>, channel<\/em>, etc.) is also capitalised when it is used as part of the name.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nthe MediterraneanSea<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nthe River<\/span> Francol\u00ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nLake<\/span> Banyoles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Otherwise, no capital letter is used (see Reference<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nthe Mediterranean and the Baltic seas<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Capitalise the initial article in a town\u2019s name, even though it is lowercased in Catalan.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nEl<\/span> Morell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nLa<\/span> Floresta<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nL<\/span>\u2019Hospitalet de l\u2019Infant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

When you are referring to parts of cities, capitalise terms such as avinguda<\/em>, carrer<\/em>, carretera<\/em>, passeig<\/em> andpla\u00e7a<\/em>, even though these are lowercased in Catalan (see also Place names<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nAll Erasmus Week participants should be at the underground station inPla\u00e7a<\/span> de Catalunya at 9.00 a.m.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Compass directions should only be capitalised when they are part of the name of a recognised geographical or political region.<\/p>\n

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\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe URV has established an agreement with Queen\u2019s University, the leading university in Northern<\/span> Ireland.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe URV is the university of southern<\/span> Catalonia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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Capitalise the names of all countries, towns and other geographical terms commonly accepted to be proper names. Catalonia Barcelona the IberianPeninsula The names of geographical features are also capitalised. The generic term (lake, sea, river, channel, etc.) is also capitalised when it is used as part of the name. the MediterraneanSea the River Francol\u00ed Lake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"parent":323,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-336","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}