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BC Geographical Names
Government site lists geographical naming principles and policy, how to propose a geographical name, access to the BC Geographical Names Information System (BCGNIS), links to BC-history/related sites, and to toponymy sites.
http://ilmbwww.gov.bc.ca/bcnames/ GeoNative
Luistxo Fernandez lists place names from all over the world in minority languages, which usually never appear in maps. [Basque and English].
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9479/ 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.
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/ 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
http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/ International Alternative Country Names
A list of names for existing countries and some regions and islands that differ from the standard international and/or English nomenclatures.
http://www1.tip.nl/~t100878/altname.htm Place Names Servers on the Internet
A collection of links by Arizona State University.
http://www.asu.edu/lib/hayden/govdocs/maps/geogname.htm A Political World Gazetteer
An outline of the world's political divisions, organized by continent, nation, national subdivision, and further geographic areas.
http://www.frognet.net/~jaknouse/gazindx.html 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.
http://digilander.libero.it/toponomastica/ UNGEGN
United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names. Contains information and resolutions on the issue of place names.
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/about_us.htm World Ocean Bed History: Geographical Names
Article on the toponymy of the ocean, undersea features and relief.
http://vitiaz.ru/congress/en/thesis/111.html
Toponymy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... of country subdivision names. Hydronymy. List of river name etymologies ... List of places in the United Kingdom. List of Roman place names in Britain ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_name
Place Names - Gazetteer of Countries, Regions and Cities Worldwide
... will be added in the coming weeks for complete worldwide place name coverage. Some random places: Uw?kahuna Bluff Aghiyuk Island BTM Claim Group Mine Udagak ...
http://www.placenames.com/
Category:Place names - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Name of Pittsburgh. Place names considered unusual. R. Russian exonyms. S. Saint-Eugène ... Categories: Toponymy | Geography by place | Names | Places ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Place_names
KryssTal : London Place Names
... (UK). The meaning of the place names and the year of first use. ... Place Name. District. or. Borough. Original Meaning. First. Recorded. A. Acton. D. oak farm ...
http://www.krysstal.com/londname.html
AskOxford: Place Names
What's in a Name. Place Names. Place-names, those familiar but often curious labels for places that feature in ... of place-name etymology are most clearly ...
http://www.askoxford.com/worldofwords/name/placenames/
Cork and Kerry Place Names Home Page
... of a townland by townland Place Names Survey involves huge community support. ... to help organise a place name survey within their own parish are invited to ...
http://www.placenames.ie/
Thousands of PLACE NAMES for your dog, horse, cat, pet or child from ...
NAMES AND PLACES IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Perth City street ... PLACE NAMES IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Be patriotic and name your kennel after a town in your home state! ...
http://www.lowchensaustralia.com/names/placenames.htm
U.S. Place & Geographic Names
Free Place & Geographinc Names Lookup for the nation with over a million places ... Search. U.S. Place and Geographic Names. Index. Enter a place name ...
http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/placenames.asp
Tacoma Public Library - Washington Place Names
Tacoma Public Library Northwest Reference Collection Past and Present web reference ... Washington Place Names database About the Database. Browse by Place Name: ...
http://search.tpl.lib.wa.us/wanames/
Arizona, USA Place Names - Counties, Cities, Maps
Some random places: Tamura Reservoir Sto-Rox Senior High School Admans Mill Pond ... 2008 Oct 07 - 08:26:06 - Placenames.com - © Copyright 2000-2008 Buttle and ...
http://www.placenames.com/us/04/
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