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BC Geographical Names Information System
Belgium Place Names
Composite gazetteer of Antarctica
"The database contains all the names officially given to Antarctic geographic features by 20 countries, with the addition of the Antarctic undersea features taken from GEBCO. The names included in the database are those south of the 600S parallel ..."--General information screen
Danish place names
Dictionary of Aboriginal placenames of Victoria database of Aboriginal placenames of Victoria
Geographical Names Board, New South Wales Government
Geographical names of Canada
GEOnet names server
Provides access to NIMA's database of foreign geographic feature names. Information in this database has been used to prepare and publish the series of foreign country gazetteers approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names
Georgia place-names
Geoscience Australia place name search
Searches the Gazetteer of Australia 2006 which is a compilation of over 322,000 geographic names in Australia provided by members of the Committee for Geographic Names in Australasia
Getty thesaurus of geographic names on line
Contains nearly 1 million place names representing approximately 900,000 places. Composed of names and other information contributed by several Getty projects, including the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), the Foundation for Documents of Architecture (FDA), the Getty Center Photo Study Collection (GCPS), and the Getty Information Institutes Vocabulary Program (VP). The TGN is the only available automated geographical resource that is hierarchical, global in scope, and targeted at researchers, catalogers, librarians, and archivists dealing with the history of art and architecture. The logical focus of a TGN record is the "place." Each place has attributes, including names, place types and coordinates. The places are arranged in hierarchies representing the current political and physical world
Imperial gazetteer of India
Key names a gazetteer of the islands of the Florida Keys /
Lantmateriet MapSearch and place names
"Lantmateriet is the national place-name authority in Sweden, and thereby has the job of establishing place names, co-ordinate governmental place-name operations and give advice and recommendations concerning place names."
list of foreign geographical names in Slovene language
Luxembourg gazetteer of villages and towns
Minnesota place names : a geographical encyclopedia /
New Zealand place names database (archived)
Nordic Place-name Database Group NPDG
Orbis latinus online
Place Names Board of Estonia
Place names in the Canadian Rockies
PlaceNames online South Australian state gazetteer
Database of place names in South Australia. The general aim of the database is to record any place name that is, or has been used, in South Australia. Associated with each name are up to 38 fields of information relating to feature type, classification, location, derivation, and cross-references to current, previous, and alternative names
Slovar toponimske terminologije
Toponimska navodila za Slovenijo
Topos sur le web : noms et lieux du Quebec
VICNAMES
"The Register of Geographic Names, VICNAMES, holds more than 190,000 road and place names including landscape features such as mountains and rivers, bounded localities such as suburbs, towns, cities and regions, and physical infrastructure such as roads, reserves and schools. You are invited to search VICNAMES for all registered place names in Victoria or track the progress of proposed names that have been submitted to the Registrar of Geographic Names for approval."
Virginia gazetteer
"The Virginia Gazetteer contains the official name, type, and location of over 51,000 geographic features in Virginia. It is based in large part on data from the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) ... The Virginia Gazetteer is linked to an inventory of collections archived at the Geostat Center in the University of Virginia Library. This allows the gazetteer to function like a geographic catalog for the Geostat collections ... At present, no statistical data about features are recorded in the gazetteer."
Washington place names
Searchable database which provides the who, what, when and why about thousands of place names throughout Washington State, including cities and towns, lakes, rivers, streams, mountains, valleys, and glaciers
Zgosceni imenik zemljepisnih imen Slovenije Concise gazetteer of Slovenia


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