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These abbreviations should be uniform and consistent and generally should not include full stops or periods.
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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
Currencies
See: Wikitravel:Currency
Dates and times
See: Wikitravel:Time and date formats
Facilities
- Air conditioning: air-con
- Wi-Fi is used for wireless internet using access points (hotspots)
Streets and roads
- Avenue: Ave
- Boulevard: Blvd
- Crescent: Cres
- Drive: Dr
- Expressway: Expy
- Freeway: Fwy
- Highway: Hwy
- Jalan: Jl (Road in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore)
- Junction: Jct
- Lane: Ln
- Mount: Mt
- Mountain: Mtn
- Parkway: Pkwy
- Place: Pl
- Road: Rd
- Route: Rte
- Street: St
- Square: Sq
- Turnpike: Tpke
US routes
Numbered highways in the US are abbreviated as follows:
- Interstates: I-80
- National highways: US-395
- State highways: CA-49
- For country routes or other smaller roads, spell them out completely.
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
