GeoNative - Luistxo Fernandez lists place names from all over the world in minority languages, which usually never appear in maps. [Basque and English].
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.
Toponomastica Toponymy - A database of place-names from the classical Greek and Roman sources, with comments on their etymology, in English, plus toponymy of the Abruzzese Appennine in Italian.
World Ocean Bed History: Geographical Names - Article on the toponymy of the ocean, undersea features and relief.
Geographical Names - Cornucopia from the Geography Department of Laurentian University, Ontario including an investigation of the relationship between the author's name, Pitblado, and place names.
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names - Compiled by the Getty Research Institute, 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.
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