Science: Social Sciences: Geography: Place Names

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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
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.
Names of Countries in Seven Languages - Database of country names in Finnish, Swedish, Saami, English, French, German and Russian.
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.
UNGEGN - United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names. Contains information and resolutions on the issue of place names.

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