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Geographic Names
Directory of gazetteers.
http://docs.lib.duke.edu/maps/guides/names.html

 

   

Geographical Names Board of Canada
Searchable index of Canadian place names.
http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/

 

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Geonative
Search for native or foreign language names of places around the world.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9479/welcome.html

 

 

GEOnet Names Server
Online gazetteer that is downloadable and regularly updated.
http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html

 

 

Geoscience Australia
Search for Australian place names online.
http://www.ga.gov.au/map/names/

 

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Global Gazetteer
This is a directory of 2,880,532 of the world's cities and towns sorted by country and linked to a map of each town. Recommended Website
http://www.calle.com/world/

 

 

Journal of Geo-Politics
This site bills itself as an online geographic thesaurus.
http://fowlerlibrary.com/Kiosk/geonames.htm

 

 

Maplandia.com
Searchable world gazetteer based on Google Maps. Recommended Website
http://www.maplandia.com/

 

 

Old World Trade Routes
Contains information about 5,000 variant names of 1,213 places in Asia, Europe and Africa.
http://www.ciolek.com/OWTRAD/gazetteer-00.html

 

 

The World Gazetteer
Population resources, map resources, flag resources, geo-coordinates, place name and language resources, link resources, other resources, and reference books and CD Roms. Recommended Website
http://www.world-gazetteer.com/

 

 

The World of Islands
A-Z of islands. You can search for them by geographic location or alphabetical order.
http://www.world-of-islands.com/

 

 

Travellers' Friend
We found this site was only really useful for finding major place names.
http://www.travellers-friend.com/

 

 

US Census Bureau
Search for a place in the United States by name or zip code.
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer

 

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USGS - Geographic Names Information System
The Geographic Names Information System contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States and its territories.
http://geonames.usgs.gov/

 

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Worldwide Gazeteer
Provides links to external websites featuring information about every country on the planet.
http://www.gazeteer.com/

 

 
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