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Canada's Geographical Names -
http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e.php
From the Geographical Names Board of Canada comes this database of locations and maps for over 350,000 Canadian places.
Gazetteer for Scotland -
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/
More than a gazetteer, this well produced database describes attraction, industries, historic sites, family names and famous people.
GEOnet World Place Names Server -
http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html
Provides access to a database of 3.5 million foreign geographic feature names approved by the U.S. Board of Geographic Names.
Geoscience Australia -
http://www.auslig.gov.au/mapping/names/natgaz.htm
Over 240,000 places listed by the Committee for Geographic Names in Australia.
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names -
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html
Provides a latitude and longitude for all places it finds.
HomeTownLocator -
http://gazetteer.hometownlocator.com
This site repackages data from other sources into a quick and simple tool for finding basic census data, maps, landforms and other features of U.S. states, territories and counties.
IreAtlas Townland Database -
http://www.seanruad.com/
A database of Irish population places.
The Columbia Gazetteer of North America (2000) -
http://www.bartleby.com/69/
Search this leading reference resource online – includes the US, Canada, Mexico and the Carribean. Alphabetical browsing available.
U.S. Gazetteer -
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
Identify places to view with Tiger Map Server and obtain census data from the 1990 Census Lookup Server.
USGS Geographic Names Information System -
http://geonames.usgs.gov
Contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States. The name of each feature is identified by state, county and geographic coordinates.
