BG or bg may refer to:
Organizations
Businesses
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Bergdorf Goodman
Bergdorf Goodman Inc. is an American luxury department store based in New York City, founded in 1899 by Herman Bergdorf. , it operates a women's store and a men's store across the street from each other on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. ...
, a department store on 5th Avenue, New York, US
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Bord Gáis Energy, an Irish gas supplier
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Bowman Gilfillan, a South African law firm
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British Gas (disambiguation) (privatised and later split between BG plc and Centrica)
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BG Group, one part of the demerged British Gas plc
Education
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Bishop Grosseteste University, a higher education institution in Lincoln, UK
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Bishop Guertin High School, Nashua, New Hampshire, US
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Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green State University (BGSU) is a Public university, public research university in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States. The main academic and residential campus is south of Toledo, Ohio. The university has nationally recognized progr ...
, Ohio, US
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Bones Gate, a fraternity at Dartmouth College, US
Music
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Bee Gees
The Bee Gees
were a musical group formed in 1958 by brothers Barry Gibb, Barry, Robin Gibb, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was especially successful in popular music in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and later as prominent performers in ...
(BGs), an English-Australian music group.
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B.G. (rapper) ("Baby Gangsta" or "B. Gizzle"), stage name of American rapper Christopher N. Dorsey.
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B.G. Knocc Out, American rapper.
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B.G., the Prince of Rap, Bernard Greene, American rapper and dance music artist.
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Benny Goodman
Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing". His orchestra did well commercially.
From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing bi ...
, American jazz musician.
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Blind Guardian
Blind Guardian is a German power metal band formed in 1984 in Krefeld, West Germany. They are often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in the power metal and speed metal subgenres. Nine musicians have been part of the band ...
, a German
power metal
Power metal is a subgenre of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional heavy metal with speed metal, often within a symphonic context. Generally, power metal is characterized by a faster, lighter, and more uplifting sound, in co ...
band.
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Boris Grebenshchikov
Boris Borisovich Grebenshchikov (; born ) is a prominent member of the generation which is widely considered to be the "founding fathers" of Russian rock music. He is the founder and lead singer of the band Aquarium which has been active since ...
, Russian singer and poet, leader of the band Aquarium.
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BarlowGirl, an American all-female Christian rock band.
Places
Europe
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Belgrade
Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...
, the capital of Serbia
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Province of Bergamo
The province of Bergamo (; ) is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Lombardy region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Bergamo. The province has a population of 1,103,768 (2023), an area of , and contains 242 ''comune, comuni'' (municipali ...
(vehicle registration plate code), Italy
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Birmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the Lis ...
(vehicle registration plate code), England
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Blaenau Gwent
Blaenau Gwent (; ) is a Principal areas of Wales, county borough in the South East Wales, south-east of Wales. It borders the Local government in Wales, unitary authority areas of Monmouthshire and Torfaen to the east, Caerphilly County Borough ...
, a county borough in Wales
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...
(WMO country code)
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Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...
(ISO country code)
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Bundesgrenzschutz (vehicle registration plate code), Germany
United States
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Bowling Green, Kentucky
Bowling Green is a city in Warren County, Kentucky, United States, and its county seat. Its population was 72,294 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of cities in Kentucky, third-most populous city in the stat ...
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Bowling Green, Ohio
Bowling Green is a city in Wood County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. The population was 30,808 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located southwest of Toledo, Ohio, Toledo, it is part of the Toledo metropolitan area and ...
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Buffalo Grove, Illinois
Elsewhere
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world and among the List of countries and dependencies by ...
(obsolete NATO, FIPS, and LOC MARC country code)
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British Guiana
British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies. It was located on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana.
The first known Europeans to encounter Guia ...
, former name of Guyana
Police and military
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Border guard, police that operate at sovereign borders
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Brigadier general, a military rank (more often written "BGen")
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Great Lakes BG, a US Navy dive-bomber aircraft
Science and technology
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bg (Unix)
In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, job control refers to control of jobs by a Unix shell, shell, especially interactively, where a "job" is a shell's representation for a process group. Basic job control features are the suspending, resuming ...
, a Unix command for background processes
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.bg, the ccTLD for Bulgaria
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Basal ganglia
The basal ganglia (BG) or basal nuclei are a group of subcortical Nucleus (neuroanatomy), nuclei found in the brains of vertebrates. In humans and other primates, differences exist, primarily in the division of the globus pallidus into externa ...
, a group of nuclei in the brain
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Blood glucose or blood sugar level
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Bus grant, a control bus signal
Transportation
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Brake Gangwayed, a type of railway coach
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Broad gauge
A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge (the distance between the rails) broader than the used by standard-gauge railways.
Broad gauge of , more known as Russian gauge, is the dominant track gauge in former Soviet Union countries ...
, in railways
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Biman Bangladesh Airlines (IATA airline code BG)
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Bingham and Garfield Railway, in Utah, US
Other uses
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Bulgarian language
Bulgarian (; , ) is an Eastern South Slavic, Eastern South Slavic language spoken in Southeast Europe, primarily in Bulgaria. It is the language of the Bulgarians.
Along with the closely related Macedonian language (collectively forming the ...
(ISO 639 alpha-2 language code: bg)
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Bangkok Glass F.C., a football team
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Board game
A board game is a type of tabletop game that involves small objects () that are placed and moved in particular ways on a specially designed patterned game board, potentially including other components, e.g. dice. The earliest known uses of the ...
See also
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BGS (disambiguation)
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