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Place Names

Toponymy is the field of science where geography meets with onomastics, the study of names. In short, this is about place names.

Sites in Place Names

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).
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
GeoNative
Luistxo Fernandez lists place names from all over the world in minority languages, which usually never appear in maps. [Basque and English].
Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming places outside Planet Earth, by the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGSPN) of the International Astronomical Union
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.
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.
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!
Place Names Servers on the Internet
A collection of links by Arizona State University.
World Gazetteer by ESRI
Enter a city, country or river name for which to search. ESRI stands for Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
International Alternative Country Names
A list of names for existing countries and some regions and islands that differ from the standard international and/or English nomenclatures.
A Political World Gazetteer
An outline of the world's political divisions, organized by continent, nation, national subdivision, and further geographic areas.
UNGEGN
United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names. Contains information and resolutions on the issue of place names.
BC Geographical Names
Government site lists geographical naming principles and 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.

sub categories in Place Names

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cross references

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