Links

Council of Geographic Names Authorities

• COGNA

Geographic Names of Individual U.S. States

• Alabama Place Names Research Center
• Alaska's Geographic Names Program
• Arizona State Board on Geographic and Historic Names
• California Advisory Committee On Geographic Names
• Colorado Place Names by County
• Connecticut State Library - Unique Connecticut Place Names
• The Delaware Geographic Names Committee
• Georgia Place Names
• Hawaii Board on Geographical Names
• Idaho GenWeb: Idaho Place Names Origins
• Iowa GenWeb: Iowa Place Names
• Kansas State Historical Society
• Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer
• thecajuns.com: Louisiana History: Old and New Place Names
• County Locations Of New England Place Names
• Michigans Place Names
• Minnesota Place Names
• The Mississippi 1885 Atlas and Gazetteer
• Directory of Towns,Villages, and Hamlets Past and Present of Missouri
• Montana History: Place Names
• University of Nebraska: Nebraska Place Names
• Nevada State Board on Geographic Names
• The State of New Jersey Localities
• The New Mexico Geographic Names Information System
• New York State Library Genealogy
• Ohio Historical and Changed Name Locations
• Oklahoma Town Names
• Oregon Geographic Names
• Tennessee Place Names and Post Offices
• Texas: Borderlands Information Center Geographic Names
• Utah Committee On Geographic Names
• Virginia Geographic Names Information System
• Washington Place Names Database
• Place Names in West Virginia
• Wisconsin Geographic Names Council
• Wyoming Board of Geographic Names

Antarctica

• SCAR - Composite Gazetteer
• Australia - Antarctic Names and Gazetteer
• Bulgaria - Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer
• Germany - Geographical names of the Antarctic
• New Zealand - Frameworks of the New Zealand Geographic Board (pg_37)
• Norway - Norwegian Polar Institute
• United Kingdom -  Antarctic Place-Names Committee

Countries

Australia

National

• Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (AUSLIG) Gazetteer of Australia
• Australian National Placenames Survey
• Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping

State

• Australian Capital Territory Land Information Centre (Canberra)
• Geographical Names Board of NSW (New South Wales)
• Place Names in the Northern Territory
• Nomenclature Board of Tasmania
• Vicnames - Geographic Place Name Authentication (Victoria)
• Names and Places in Western Australia
• South Australian State Gazetteer
• Queensland Department of Natural Resources

Belgium

• BELGIUM-ROOTS Project

Canada

National

• Canadian Geographical Names Data Base: English, French

Province

• Friends of Geographical Names of Alberta
• BC Geographical Names (British Columbia)
• Manitoba Geographical Names Program
• Place Names Database - PWNHC (Northwest Territories)
• Nova Scotia's Geographical Names
• Ontario Geographic Names Board Act
• Nunavut Planning Commission
• Commission de toponymie du Quebec (French only)

China

• Chinese Historical Placenames

Denmark

• Place Name in Denmark

Estonia

• Place Names Board of Estonia

Ireland

• The LOCUS Project

New Zealand

• New Zealand Geographic Place-Names Database

United Kingdom

• The Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use
• Gazetteer of British Place Names
• Ordnance Survey
• Gazetteer for Scotland

World

• Fuzzy Gazetteer
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) GEOnet Names Server (GNS)
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Planetary

• International Astronomical Union Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Other Related Federal Information Servers

• U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Gazetteer
• U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Census Bureau's Mapping and Cartographic Resources
• Environmental Protection Agency Surf Your Watershed | Locate Your Watershed |

Miscellaneous Geographic Name Sites

• American Name Society
• Alexandria Digital Library
• Arizona State University Place Name Servers on the Internet
• Coeur d'Alene Native Names Project
• Columbia Gazetteer
• GeoNative - To Preserve Native and Minority placenames
• The JewishGen ShtetlSeeker - Central and Eastern Europe
• Latin Place Names - Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
• Nipmuc Place Names of New England - Nipmuc Indian Association of Connecticut
• Toponymy Interest Group (PLANSUS)