PG explained

PG, P.G., P&G, pg, or Pg, or similar, may refer to:

• Parental Guidance (PG), a content rating in the following motion picture content rating systems and television content rating systems:
  • Australian Classification Board
  • Film Censorship Board in Barbados
  • Canadian motion picture rating system/Canadian Home Video Rating System
  • Canadian TV Classification System
  • Cook Islands Censorship Office
  • Hong Kong television rating system
  • Irish Film Classification Office
  • Jamaican motion picture rating system
  • Kenya Film Classification Board
  • Censor Board Committee in Kuwait
  • Lebanese Censorship Board
  • National Bureau of Classification in the Maldives
  • Film Board in Malta
  • Film Classification Board in Mauritius
  • Classification Office (New Zealand)
  • New Zealand television rating system
  • National Film and Video Censors Board in Nigeria
  • Movie and Television Review and Classification Board in the Philippines
  • General Commission for Audiovisual Media in Saudi Arabia
  • Board of Film Censors in Singapore
  • Singaporean television rating system
  • Film and Publication Board in South Africa
  • National Media Council (United Arab Emirates)
  • British Board of Film Classification
  • Motion Picture Association in the United States
  • TV Parental Guidelines in the United States (TV-PG)

Businesses and organisations

• P.G. Cigars, a cigar brand named after Paul Garmirian
• PG Tips, a British brand of tea
• Bangkok Airways, a Thai regional airline, IATA airline designator PG
• Procter & Gamble (P&G), an American multi-national consumer goods corporation
• Left Party (France) (Parti de gauche), a French democratic socialist political party
• Partido Galeguista (1931), a Galician nationalist political party in Galicia, Spain
• Partido Galeguista (1978), a Galician nationalist political party in Galicia, Spain
• Peoples Gazette, a Nigerian online newspaper
• Petrokimia Gresik, an Indonesian fertilizer company
• PlatinumGames, a Japanese video game developer
• Porter-Gaud School, Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.

People

• PG, student in a postgraduate year after high school (secondary school)
• P.G., Brazilian musician and singer who performed with the band Oficina G3
• P.G. Sittenfeld (born 1984), American politician
• P. G. Wodehouse, English author and humorist

Places

• Papua New Guinea (ISO 3166-1 country code PG)
• Pauri Garhwal district, a district in the state of Uttarakhand, India
• Podgorica, Montenegro, vehicle licence plate code PG
• Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
• Prince George's County, Maryland, or PG County, U.S.

Science, technology and mathematics

• Polygalacturonase, an enzyme
• Propylene glycol, an organic compound
• Prostaglandin, physiologically active lipid compounds
• PG(n,q), a projective space of Galois geometry
• PG(3,2), the smallest three-dimensional projective space
• pg (Unix), a Unix system command (a terminal pager)
• Paleogene (Pg), a geologic period and system
• Panzergewinde, a technical standard for screw threads
• Petagram (Pg), 10⁹ grams, an SI unit of mass
• Picogram (pg), 10⁻¹⁸ grams, an SI unit of mass
• PostgreSQL, a free and open-source relational database management system

Other uses

• Page (paper), one side of a sheet of paper, as in a book
• Patrologia Graeca, a collection of writings by Christian Church Fathers

• Point guard, one of the five positions in basketball

• Project Gutenberg, a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works
• iPhrothiya yeGolide, a South African military decoration
• , a 2020 Canadian horror comedy film
• Rated PG (album), a compilation album by musician Peter Gabriel
• A US Navy hull classification symbol: Patrol gunboat (PG)