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Specialized organisations and agencies of the United Nations
| Organizations Name | Abbreviation | Headquarters | Established |
| Food and Agriculture Organization | FAO | Rome, Italy | 1946 |
| International Atomic Energy Agency | IAEA | Vienna, Austria | 1957 |
| International Civil Aviation Organization | ICAO | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 1947 |
| International Fund for Agricultural Development | IFAD | Rome, Italy | 1977 |
| International Labour Organization | ILO | Geneva, Switzerland | 1910 |
| International Maritime Organization | IMO | London, United Kingdom | 1948 |
| International Monetary Fund | IMF | Washington, D.C., United States | 1945 |
| International Telecommunication Union | ITU | Geneva, Switzerland | 1965 |
| United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization | UNESCO | Paris, France | 1945 |
| Universal Postal Union | UPU | Bern, Switzerland | 1947 |
| World Bank Group | WBG | Washington, D.C, United States | 1945 |
| World Intellectual Property Organization | WIPO | Geneva, Switzerland | 1974 |
| World Meteorological Organization | WMO | Geneva, Switzerland | 1950 |
| United Nations World Tourism Organization | UNWTO | Madrid, Spain | 1974 |
| United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime | UNODC | Vienna, Austria | 1997 |
| World Health Organization | WHO | Geneva, Switzerland | 1948 |
Departments and Offices of the United Nations Secretariat
| Organizations Name | Abbreviation | Headquarters | Established |
| Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs | UNOCHA | New York City, United States | 1991 |
| United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs | UNOOSA | Vienna, Austria | 1958 |
Organizations with a working relationship with the United Nations
| Organizations Name | Abbreviation | Headquarters | Established |
| International Seabed Authority | ISA | Kingston, Jamaica | 1994 |
| Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization | CTBTO | Vienna, Austria | 1997 |
| Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons | OPCW | The Hague, Netherlands | 1997 |
Research and training bodies of the United Nations
| Organizations Name | Abbreviation | Headquarters | Established |
| United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research | UNIDIR | Geneva, Switzerland | 1980 |
| United Nations University | UNU | Tokyo, Japan | 1969 |
| United Nations Institute for Training and Research | UNITAR | Geneva, Switzerland | 1965 |
| United Nations Research Institute For Social Development | UNRISD | Geneva, Switzerland | 1963 |
| United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute | UNICRI | Turin, Italy | 1968 |
| United Nations System Staff College | UNSSC | Turin, Italy | 2002 |
| University for Peace | UPEACE | San José, Costa Rica | 1980 |
| International Centre for Theoretical Physics | ICTP | Trieste, Italy | 1964 |
| Innocenti Research Centre – International Child Development Centre | IRC | Florence, Italy | 1988 |
