Definition of Gazetteer
A list of geographic place-names and their coordinates. Entries may include other information as well, such as area, population, or cultural statistics. Atlases often include gazetteers, which are used as indexes to their maps. Well-known digital gazetteers include the U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and the Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer.
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Gazetteers and Official Place Names
- United States Geological Survey Geographic Names Information Service (the primary source for U.S. and Antarctic place names)
- National Imagery and Mapping Agency Geographic Names Server (GNS) (the primary source for international place names)
- links to Gazetteers
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Britain Ordnance Survey Place Name Gazetteer
This gazetteer has over 250,000 place names and is searchable via name, unitary authority, description, lat/long locations and a list of maps.
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Geographical Names of Canada
This site allows you to query approximately 350,000 Canadian geographic place and physical feature names by name, coordinates or other unique codes.
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GNIS - United States Board on Geographic Names
This gazetteer is a key resource to find the official name, latitude and longitude of domestic, foreign, Antarctic or undersea features. Note that if you are looking for foreign names, the link on the GNIS will take you to the GNS (also available as a link on this guide).
