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Geographic
Names
Directory
of gazetteers.
http://docs.lib.duke.edu/maps/guides/names.html
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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
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GEOnet
Names Server
Online
gazetteer that is downloadable and regularly updated.
http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html
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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. 
http://www.calle.com/world/
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Journal
of Geo-Politics
This site
bills itself as an online geographic thesaurus.
http://fowlerlibrary.com/Kiosk/geonames.htm
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Maplandia.com
Searchable
world gazetteer based on Google Maps.
http://www.maplandia.com/
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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
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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.
http://www.world-gazetteer.com/
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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/
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Travellers'
Friend
We found
this site was only really useful for finding major place names.
http://www.travellers-friend.com/
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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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