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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.
http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/bcnames/
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UNGEGN
United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names. Contains information and resolutions on the
issue of place names.
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/about_us.htm
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A Political World Gazetteer
An outline of the world's political divisions, organized by continent, nation, national
subdivision, and further geographic areas.
http://www.frognet.net/~jaknouse/gazindx.html
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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.
http://www1.tip.nl/~t100878/altname.htm
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World Gazetteer by ESRI
Enter a city, country or river name for which to search. ESRI stands for Environmental Systems
Research Institute, Inc.
http://maps.esri.com/scripts/esrimap.dll?name=gaz_avd&cmd=start
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Place Names Servers on the Internet
A collection of links by Arizona State University.
http://www.asu.edu/lib/hayden/govdocs/maps/geogname.htm
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Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer Server
ADL Gazetteer. If you search for a placename ADL not only provides a map, but gives also a link to
search in Yahoo!
http://fat-albert.alexandria.ucsb.edu:8827/gazetteer/
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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Compiled by the Getty Research Institue, 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.
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html
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The Global Gazetteer
3.5 million place names in a commercial gazetteer (not to be consulted online, but to be
purchased). Latitude/longitude, population, postcodes, administrative areas. Also some 40,000 ports
and airports. Developed by ALLM Systems & Marketing.
http://www.allm-geodata.com/
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Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming places outside Planet Earth, by the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
(WGSPN) of the International Astronomical Union
http://wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/nomen/nomen.html
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Worldwide Directory of Cities and Towns
Longitude, latitude and altitude of more than 2,800,000 towns and cities, sorted by country and
then alphabetically.
http://www.calle.com/world/index.html
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GeoNative
"Put minority languages on the map!": Comprehensive lists of minority place names from
all over the world from native peoples, nations without state and language minorities (in Basque
and English).
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9479/
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GNS: GEOnet Names Server
Global searchable database set up by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), US. Foreign
place names as approved by the US Board of Geographic Names, other name variants. Approx. 3.3
million entries
http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/
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The Global Gazetteer
Commercial gazetteer with about 2.5 million names with additional geographic and demographic data.
A product designed by Knowledge Computing co. (UK) for ALLM Systems & Marketing England (UK).
http://www.knowledge.co.uk/geodata/
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