BG

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BG, B.G., or bg may refer to:

Computing:

• bg (Unix), Unix command for background processes

Companies and organizations:

• British Government, the government of the United Kingdom
• BG Group, one part of the demerged British Gas plc
• Biman Bangladesh Airlines, IATA airline code
• Bord Gáis, Bord Gáis Éireann, the Irish Gas Board
• Bowling Green State University
• British Gas (privatised and later split between BG plc and Centrica)
• Bharatiya Gorkhali Welfare Association, a non-government organization based in Bangalore, India
• Bingham and Garfield Railway

Other:

• Baldur's Gate, the first role-playing computer game in the Baldur's Gate series
• Bank guarantee
• Battlestar Galactica, a science fiction TV series
• Brigadier General, a military rank (more usually written BGen)
• Beautiful Garbage, the third studio album by Garbage
• Brake Gangwayed, a type of railway coach
• Broad gauge
• Border guard, police that function in border only
• Brian Griffin, a character on Family Guy voiced by Seth MacFarlane

People and groups:

• B.G. (rapper) ("Baby Gangsta"), rapper Christopher Dorsey
• B.G., the Prince of Rap, Bernard Greene, American rapper and dance music artist
• B.G. Knocc Out, an American rapper
• Barry Goldwater, American politician
• Berry Gordy, founder and former CEO of Motown Records
• Benny Goodman, American jazz musician
• Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer and poet, leader of the band Aquarium
• Bee Gees, or the "Brothers Gibb"
• Blind Guardian, a German power-metal band
• Brothers Grimm, famous writing group in the 1800s that wrote stories such as "Snow White" and "Cinderella"
• BarlowGirl, a Christian rock band composed of three sisters
• Dartmouth College Greek organizations#Bones Gate (BG), a fraternity at Dartmouth College

Places:

• Bangladesh, obsolete two-letter NATO country code
• Belgrade, the capital of Serbia
• Bhārat Gaṇarājya, another name for India
• Blaenau Gwent, a county borough in Wales
• Bosnia and Herzegovina, WMO country code
• Bowling Green, Kentucky
• Bowling Green, Ohio
• British Guiana (now the co-operative republic of Guyana)
• Buffalo Grove, Illinois
• Bulgaria, two-letter ISO country code
  • .bg, the ccTLD for Bulgaria
  • Bulgarian language (bg), ISO 639 alpha-2 language code

Schools:

• Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln, a Higher Education Institution in Lincoln, UK
• Bishop Guertin High School

Music:

• "Barbie Girl", a song by Aqua in 1997

Anatomy:

• Basal ganglia, a group of nuclei in the brain

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