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UK Placename and Street Gazetteers, Postcodes, Latitude & Longitude, Grid Coordinates and Addresses (Popularity: )
http://www.evoxfacilities.co.uk
UK information. Site includes explanation of UK Postcode system with maps, listings and PostTowns, plus National Grid coordinate system.

Swedish Gazetteer (Popularity: )
http://www.sna.se/gazetteer.html
Search a list of almost 60,000 locations in Sweden. Results are shown with municipality and county, as well as the location on a topographic map of Sweden. (From the National ...



Index of German-Polish and Polish-German Names of the Localities in Poland and Russia (Popularity: )
http://www.atsnotes.com/other/gerpol.html
Anna Sluszkiewicz provides maps and a bibliography in addition to the index.

The Global Gazetteer (Popularity: )
http://www.knowledge.co.uk/geodata/
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).



Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Popularity: )
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html
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 ...

A Political World Gazetteer (Popularity: )
http://www.frognet.net/~jaknouse/gazindx.html
An outline of the world's political divisions, organized by continent, nation, national subdivision, and further geographic areas.

Antarctic Place Names (Popularity: )
http://id-team.org/apc/Apcbg-Web-New.htm
Includes a national gazetteer listing all Bulgarian place names in Antarctica with description of the relevant geographical features.

JewishGen ShtetlSeeker (Popularity: )
http://www.jewishgen.org/shtetlseeker/loctown.htm
Town search for most of central and eastern Europe. Finds not only Jewish settlements, but virtually any location.

Kestrel Press (Popularity: )
http://www.kestrel-press.com/
Publishes California place name literature. Includes books on Monterey and Santa Cruz counties.

Belgium-Roots (Popularity: )
http://belgium.rootsweb.com/bel/_places/index.html
Placename index for Belgium.

Geo Serv (Popularity: )
http://www.genealogienetz.de/gene/misc/geoserv.html
Placename information service for Germany

Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia (CGNA) (Popularity: )
http://www.icsm.gov.au/icsm/cgna/
Representation on CGNA comes from the Australian State / Territory Geographical Names Boards, New Zealand and other individuals with an interest on nomenclature.

Australian Geographic Place Names (Gazetteer) (Popularity: )
http://www.ga.gov.au/map/names/
Search the Gazetteer of Australia which is a compilation of over 240 000 geographic names of Australia provided by members of the Committee for Geographic Names in Australia.

Scotplace (Popularity: )
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scotplace
Forum for queries and discussion about all aspects of Scottish place-names.

UNGEGN (Popularity: )
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/about_us.htm
United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names. Contains information and resolutions on the issue of place names.

Roman Gaul (Popularity: )
http://www.sc.edu/ltantsoc/geogmain.htm
A gazetteer of places and people of Roman Gaul.

The Locus Project (Popularity: )
http://www.ucc.ie/locus/
Aims to produce a new Historical Dictionary of Irish placenames and tribal names to replace Fr Edmund Hogan's Onomasticon Goedelicum.

The JewishGen ShtetlSeeker (Popularity: )
http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/
Locates not only Jewish settlements in Central and Eastern Europe, but other placenames also. Covers linguistic and historic variants for names.

Place Name Board of Estonia (Popularity: )
http://www.eki.ee/knn/index2.htm
The official body of this little nation could serve as a model for the study and standardization of place names. Also very interesting global information and links

Canadian Geographical Names (Popularity: )
http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/
By the Canadian Geographical Names Board.

 
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