Wikitravel:Abbreviations

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Using abbreviations is encouraged.
These abbreviations should be uniform and consistent and generally should not include full stops or periods.

Note: The abbreviations below are emboldened for clarity of exposition but, of course, we don't use bold face for abbreviations in Wikitravel articles just because its an abbreviation!

Buildings

• Building: Bldg
• 1st floor: 1F, 2nd floor: 2F, etc

Contact

• Wi-Fi is used for wireless internet using access points (hotspots)

Countries

• United Kingdom should be abbreviated as UK without periods/full stops, not U.K. (and not G.B. or GB, which is not coterminous with the UK)
• United States of America should be abbreviated as US without periods/full stops, not U.S.A. or U.S.

Currencies

See: Wikitravel:Currency

Dates and times

See: Wikitravel:Time and date formats

Listing information

Air conditioning: air-con

Streets and roads

• Avenue: Ave
• Boulevard: Blvd
• Court: Ct
• Crescent: Cres
• Drive: Dr
• Expressway: Expwy
• Freeway: Fwy
• Highway: Hwy
• Jalan: Jl (Road in Indonesia and Malaysia)
• Junction: Jct
• Lane: Ln
• Place: Pl
• Road: Rd
• Route: Rte
• Street: St

Measurements

See: Wikitravel:Measurements

• kilometre or kilometres: km
• metre or metres: m
• centimetre or centimetres: cm
• mile or miles: mi
• inch or inches: in
• Celsius: °C
• Fahrenheit: °F
• year or years: yr
• hour or hours: hr
• minutes: min

See also

• Wikitravel:Spelling