Sharp PWE260 Operation Manual - Page 85

3. Sense numbers are used to group closely related places under a single main entry. 4. The name under which a place is listed is, in some cases (for example, Venice, Rome, and Italy) not the official 'native' form or spelling, but is the form in which non-natives of the place are likely to use the name. In some other cases, the form under which a name is entered is better known than the official form or spelling. 5. The characterization of the status of a place, it should be noted, is also subject to language and national differences. For entries in the United States and Canada, terms like city, town, and village used in this dictionary reflect official usage, which is a matter of municipal organization, not population or land area. In other parts of the world, governmental form and municipal designation take many forms (and are sometimes difficult to determine with certainty). For places outside the United States and Canada, this dictionary adopts general usage, and the term city, for example, usually denotes an urban place larger than a town or village. There are, of course, many different designations for populated places, some more familiar than others, such as commune, borough, and parish; some of these are used here, following the most reliable source information that could be obtained. 6. Population figures: For populated places in the United States and Canada, the latest official census figures are used. For populated places in the rest of the world, sources vary, but recently released figures are used, rounded off, in almost all cases, to the nearest thousand. 7. Measurements are given in standard units first, followed by a conversion into metric measurement. This conforms to prevalent usage in the United States. Thus miles (mi.) are also given in kilometers (km.); feet (ft.) in meters (m.); and square miles (sq. mi.) in square kilometers. 83