BG

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

Businesses and organizations

In education

• Bishop Grosseteste University, a higher education institution in Lincoln, UK
• Bishop Guertin High School, Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
• Bowling Green State University

Other businesses

• Bergdorf Goodman, a department store on 5th Avenue, New York
• Biman Bangladesh Airlines (IATA airline code BG)
• Bingham and Garfield Railway, in Utah, 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

Other organizations

• Bangkok Glass F.C., a football team
• Bones Gate, a Dartmouth College fraternity
• British Government, the government of the United Kingdom

In music

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

Places

Asia

• Bangladesh, obsolete two-letter NATO country code
• Bhārat Gaṇarājya, another name for India

Europe

• Belgrade, the capital of Serbia
• Province of Bergamo, Italy (vehicle registration plate code BG)
• Birmingham, United Kingdom (vehicle registration plate code BG)
• Blaenau Gwent, a county borough in Wales
• Bosnia and Herzegovina, WMO country code
• Bulgaria, two-letter ISO country code
  • .bg, the ccTLD for Bulgaria
  • Bulgarian language (bg), ISO 639 alpha-2 language code
• Bundesgrenzschutz, Germany (vehicle registration plate code BG)

North America

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

South America

• British Guiana (now the co-operative republic of Guyana)

In science and technology

• bg (Unix), a Unix command for background processes
• Basal ganglia, a group of nuclei in the brain
• Blood glucose, or blood sugar
• Brake Gangwayed, a type of railway coach
• Broad gauge, in railways
• Bus grant, a control bus signal

Other uses

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