BG

BG or bg may refer to:

Organizations

Businesses

• Bergdorf Goodman, a department store on 5th Avenue, New York, US
• Bord Gáis Energy, an Irish gas supplier
• Bowman Gilfillan, a South African law firm
• British Gas (disambiguation) (privatised and later split between BG plc and Centrica)
  • BG Group, one part of the demerged British Gas plc

Education

• Bishop Grosseteste University, a higher education institution in Lincoln, UK
• Bishop Guertin High School, Nashua, New Hampshire, US
• Bowling Green State University, Ohio, US
• Bones Gate, a fraternity at Dartmouth College, US

Music

• Bee Gees (BGs), an English-Australian music group.
• B.G. (rapper) ("Baby Gangsta" or "B. Gizzle"), stage name of American rapper Christopher N. Dorsey.
• B.G. Knocc Out, American rapper.
• B.G., the Prince of Rap, Bernard Greene, American rapper and dance music artist.
• Benny Goodman, American jazz musician.
• Blind Guardian, a German power metal band.
• Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer and poet, leader of the band Aquarium.
• BarlowGirl, an American all-female Christian rock band.

Places

Europe

• Belgrade, the capital of Serbia
• Province of Bergamo (vehicle registration plate code), Italy
• Birmingham (vehicle registration plate code), England
• Blaenau Gwent, a county borough in Wales
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (WMO country code)
• Bulgaria (ISO country code)
• Bundesgrenzschutz (vehicle registration plate code), Germany

United States

• Bowling Green, Kentucky
• Bowling Green, Ohio
• Buffalo Grove, Illinois

Elsewhere

• Bangladesh (obsolete NATO, FIPS, and LOC MARC country code)
• British Guiana, former name of Guyana

Police and military

• Border guard, police that operate at sovereign borders
• Brigadier general, a military rank (more often written "BGen")
• Great Lakes BG, a US Navy dive-bomber aircraft

Science and technology

• bg (Unix), a Unix command for background processes
• .bg, the ccTLD for Bulgaria
• Basal ganglia, a group of nuclei in the brain
• Blood glucose or blood sugar level
• Bus grant, a control bus signal

Transportation

• Brake Gangwayed, a type of railway coach
• Broad gauge, in railways
• Biman Bangladesh Airlines (IATA airline code BG)
• Bingham and Garfield Railway, in Utah, US

Other uses

• Bulgarian language (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code: bg)
• Bangkok Glass F.C., a football team
• Board game

See also

• BGS (disambiguation)