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- A Political World Gazetteer - An outline of the world's political divisions, organized by continent, nation, national subdivision, and further geographic areas.
www.frognet.net/~jaknouse/gazindx.html
- Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer Server - ADL Gazetteer. If you search for a placename ADL not only provides a map, but gives also a link to search in Yahoo!
fat-albert.alexandria.ucsb.edu:8827/gazetteer
- British Columbia Geographical Names - BC's geographical naming principles & policy; how to propose a geographical name; access to the BC Geographical Names Information System (BCGNIS); links to BC-history/related sites and to toponymy sites.
www.gdbc.gov.bc.ca/bcnames
- Etymologies of country names -
www1.tip.nl/~t100878/altname.htm
- GeoNative - "Put minority languages on the map!": Comprehensive lists of minority place names from all over the world from native peoples, nations without state and language minorities (in Basque and English).
www.geocities.com/Athens/9479
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names - Compiled by the Getty Research Institue, TGN is a structured vocabulary developed primarily for the field of art history, but can be used in any in many other applications. The thesaurus contains nearly 1 million place names representing approximately 900,000 places.
www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html
- GNS: GEOnet Names Server - Global searchable database set up by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), US. Foreign place names as approved by the US Board of Geographic Names, other name variants. Approx. 3.3 million entries
164.214.2.59/gns/html
- Place Names Servers on the Internet - A collection of links by Arizona State University.
www.asu.edu/lib/hayden/govdocs/maps/geogname.htm
- PlaceNames.com - Worldwide index of place names. A collection of links.
www.placenames.com
- Planetary System Nomenclature - Naming places outside Planet Earth, by the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGSPN) of the International Astronomical Union
wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/nomen/nomen.html
- The Global Gazetteer - Commercial gazetteer with about 2.5 million names with additional geographic and demographic data. A product designed by Knowledge Computing co. (UK) for ALLM Systems & Marketing England (UK).
www.knowledge.co.uk/geodata
- The Global Gazetteer - 3.5 million place names in a commercial gazetteer (not to be consulted online, but to be purchased). Latitude/longitude, population, postcodes, administrative areas. Also some 40,000 ports and airports. Developed by ALLM Systems & Marketing.
www.allm-geodata.com
- UNGEGN - United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names. Located on the pages of the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, contains numerous information and also UN resolutions on the issue of place names.
GeoNames.NRCan.GC.CA/english/unindex.html
- World Gazetteer by ESRI - Enter a city, country or river name for which to search. ESRI stands for Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
maps.esri.com/scripts/esrimap.dll?name=gaz_avd&cmd=start
- Worldwide Directory of Cities and Towns - Longitude, latitude and altitude of more than 2,800,000 towns and cities, sorted by country and then alphabetically.
www.calle.com/world/index.html
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