BG

BG or bg may refer to:

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.

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