Links
Sites including gazetters, databases on geographical names:
Antarctica:
- COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA -
includes 34101 official names, corresponding to 17042 features
Belgium:
- Place names database of the Belgium-Roots Project -
about 3000 names with zip codes, names of districts and other data
Canada:
- Canadian Geographical Names Data Base (CGNDB) -
contains some 500 000 records, over two-thirds of which are currently official names,
as approved by the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (CPCGN)
- Geographical names database (BCGNIS)
- master database for British Columbia's place names
- Northwest Territories,
The Geographic Names Database - contains information on more than 11,000 official names for geographic features
(lakes, mountains, rivers etc.) and populated places in Canada's
Northwest Territories
Estonia:
- Place Names Database (KNAB) of EKI -
geographical names of Estonia and foreign names
New Zealand:
- New Zealand geograhic place names database -
over 40,000 entries are available in this version of the database covering the North Island,
the South Island and Stewart Island
USA:
- Geographic Names Information System -
includes fully searchable databases on geographical names of Antarctica and United States
Others:
- The Whole Basque Place-Name List -
the most complete Basque place-name list
- The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) -
provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping
Agency's (NIMA) database of foreign geographic feature names, 3.7 million features
Other resources:
Australasia:
- Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia
Estonia:
- PLACE NAMES BOARD OF ESTONIA
Finland:
- Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
United Kingdom:
-
Scottish Place-Name Society
USA:
- American Name Society
- Digital Gazetteer Information Exchange (DGIE) Workshop
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