LINKS to a selection of web sites throughout the world
dealing with geographical names
Worldwide:
For names of populated places and features throughout the
world, excluding those in the United States or the
Antarctic, search the United States Board on Geographic
Names (BGN)
Geographic Names Data Base (GNDB).
Selection of national websites:
Australia:
Australia's national mapping agency site -
database of place names in Australia.
Information about the
Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia (CGNA).
Belgium:
Search for populated places in
Belgium.
Brazil:
Search Brazil's
official geographical names database (in Portuguese)
Canada:
Visit the website of the
Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) at Natural
Resources Canada.
Search the
GNBC database for information about geographical names
in Canada.
The
Atlas of Canada website
China:
The China Institute of Toponymy maintains a
China
Geographical Names website in Chinese.
The China
Administrative Divisions website contains detailed
information supplied by the Administrative Divisions and
Geographical Names Department of the Ministry of Civil
Affairs. In Chinese.
Denmark:
This site contains an alphabetical listing of authorised
place names in
Denmark. In Danish.
Estonia:
Place Names Board of Estonia: This site includes
information on the Board and lists of geographical names in
Estonia.
Click
here to visit the Estonian Place Names Register, the
access point for the National Topographic Database, the
Address Data System and the National Place Names Register
A searchable database of places in Estonia is available by
visiting the Institute of Estonian Language
Place Names Database.
Finland:
National Land Survey of Finland ...
Topographic Map Browsing System (In
Finnish, Swedish and English)
France:
Information on
geographical names work in France at the Institut
Géographique National. In French.
Germany:
Search for geographical names using the gazetteer-web
service at the
Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy website.
Ständiger Ausschuss für geographische Namen (StAGN)(Germany's
Permanent Committee on Geographical Names). In German.
Hungary:
Search the
village finder and gazetteer of Hungary.
Iran:
Search Iran's
national geographical names database
Web pages of
the Iranian National Committee on the Standardization of
Geographical Names
Japan
Browse Japan's
Toponymic Guidelines and
Gazetteer on the Japanese Geographical Survey Institute
website.
Lithuania:
List of Lithuanian Place Names, approved by the State
Commission of the Lithuanian Language. In
Lithuanian.
Luxembourg:
Luxembourg Society for Linguistic, Ethnological and
Dialectic Studies at the Institut Grand-Ducal.
Gazetteer of towns and villages of Luxembourg.
New Zealand:
Search for place names in New Zealand at the
New Zealand Geographic Place Names Database.
Republic of Korea:
Gazetteer of Korea.
Slovakia:
The Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre Authority of the
Slovak Republic.
Standardization of geographical names in Slovakia. In
Slovak.
Slovenia:
Slovene Governmental Commission for the Standardisation of
Geographical Names in Slovenia.
South Africa:
Information about the
South
African Geographical Names Council (SAGNC).
Sweden:
National Atlas of Sweden
gazetteer search.
Land Survey place-name database. In Swedish
Switzerland:
Federal Office of Topography.
Search Swiss topomaps and place names.
United States:
The US Board on Geographic Names' US database is managed by
the US Geological Survey.
Search here for place names within the United States and
its territories.
Undersea feature names:
Visit the website of the
International Hydrographic Organization
to learn about the
Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN).
For names approved by the US Board on Geographic Names'
Advisory Committee on Undersea Features, visit the
GeoNet Names Server. "Undersea Features" is listed
amongst the geographical entities on the query form.
For names treated by the Geographical Names Board of Canada
Advisory Committee on Undersea and Maritime Feature Names,
visit the
GNBC database, then select "Undersea Features" as the
type of GeoNames query.
Planetary names:
For information on planetary names, and to download an
alphabetical list of names from the International
Astronomical Union,
click here.
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