Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer Server
This gazetteer contains place names for countries around the world. Includes over 4 million entries. British On-line Historical Gazetteer
A system which tries to match the placename you give it with a civil parish or registration district from the 1911 census.
Canadian Geographical Names
Over 350,000 official geographic place names in Canada. The site also has other interesting information like the origins of Canadian place names. Can be very slow to load. Denmark Place Names
This site contains an alphabetized list of authorized place names in Denmark with information on parishes and administrative districts. In Danish. Estonia: Place Names Database
A searchable database that contains current names for places in Estonia (many renamed since Estonia declared its independence in 1991) as well as the older, variant names. Finland Place Names
The place name search allows you to search for sites and places in Finland. The place name database of the MapSite contains some 30,000 place names. Registration (free) required. French Communes Search
A searchable database of French parishes and townships courtesy of the Institut Géographique National. In French. French Place Names
A searchable database of over 2,000,000 French place names from the Institut Géographique National. In French. GeoNative
A site which aims to promote respect for and increase knowledge of Minority and Native Language place names. At present there are over 233 languages represented. GEOnet World Place Names Server
A database of 3.5 million foreign geographic feature names from the US National Imagery and Mapping Agency. Geoscience Australia: Place Name Search
Search the 2001 Gazetteer of Australia, a compilation of over 274,000 geographic place names of Australia. Geographic Names in Belgium
Lists the names and locations of almost 3000 cities, towns, and hamlets in Belgium. Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Contains over 1 million place names related to art history. Hungary Place Names
An alphabetical list of cities in Hungary with their population. Luxembourg Gazetteer of Places and Towns
An alphabetical list of place names in Luxembourgish with their French and German equivalents. New Zealand Geographic Place-Names Database
Over 40,000 geographic place names from New Zealand topographic and historical maps. Nordic Place Names Database
A database of place names from Denmark, Faeroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Norway and Sweden. Registration is required, but free. Scotland - Gazetteer
A geographical database describing towns, villages, and glens from the Scottish Borders to the Northern Aisles. ShtetlSeeker
JewishGen's online utility for finding cities and towns in Central and Eastern Europe. Swedish National Atlas
A searchable placename's register with map links. This will take you to the English version of the website, but it is also available in Swedish. SwissGeo
Search this database for a Switzerland location by name or address and view the 1:50,000 topographic map showing that place. US Gazetteer
A list of United States place names that were included in the 1990 census. This database only includes names for populated places. US Geographic Names Information Server Best of the Net
Information on over 2,000,000 places, features, and areas in the US including Federally recognized names and locations by State, County, and geographic coordinates.
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