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A Political World Gazetteer 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.
BC Geographical Names http://ilmbwww.gov.bc.ca/bcnames/
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.
GeoNative http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9479/
Luistxo Fernandez lists place names from all over the world in minority languages, which usually never appear in maps. [Basque and English].
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/
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.
GNS: GEOnet Names Server http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/
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
International Alternative Country Names http://www1.tip.nl/~t100878/altname.htm
A list of names for existing countries and some regions and islands that differ from the standard international and/or English nomenclatures.
Place Names Servers on the Internet http://www.asu.edu/lib/hayden/govdocs/maps/geogname.htm
A collection of links by Arizona State University.
Toponomastica Toponymy http://digilander.libero.it/toponomastica/
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 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.
World Ocean Bed History: Geographical Names http://vitiaz.ru/congress/en/thesis/111.html
Article on the toponymy of the ocean, undersea features and relief.

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