BG

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

• Backgammon
• background as for[art (in particular traditional animation)
• Baldur's Gate, the first role-playing computer game in the Baldur's Gate series
• Bank guarantee
• Battlegrounds, a patch-released enhancement to World of Warcraft
• Battlestar Galactica, a science fiction TV series
• Before Guild, a designation used to number years in the Dune universe
• "bis gleich!", German term meaning "see you later", often used in Internet or e-mail shorthand
• Brigadier General, a military rank (more usually written BGen)
• beautifulgarbage, 3th studio album by Garbage
• Brake Gangwayed, a type of railway coach
• Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Caesar's commentaries on the Gallic War
• Broad gauge

People:

• 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 a gangsta rapper
• 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, German power-metal band
• Bones Gate, a fraternity at Dartmouth College

Computing:

• bg (Unix), Unix command for background processes
• Before Google, a popular term to describe times without web search engines

Places:

• Bangladesh, obsolete 2-letter NATO country code
• Belgrade, the capital of Serbia
• 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, 2-letter ISO country code
  • .bg, the ccTLD for Bulgaria
  • Bulgarian language (bg), ISO 639 alpha-2 language code

Companies and organizations:

• 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 & later split between Transco and Centrica)

Schools:

• Bishop Guertin High School