Council of Geographic Names Authorities

• COGNA

Geographic Names of Individual U.S. States

• University of Alabama Department of Geography Placenames Research Center
• Alaska's Geographic Names Program
• Arkansas Place Names
• Arizona State Board on Geographic and Historic Names
• California Advisory Committee on Geographic Names
• Colorado Place Names by County
• Connecticut State Library - List of Towns and Counties
• Connecticut State Library
• Delaware DataMIL
• Name Origin of Florida Places
• Georgia Archives: Geographic Names
• Georgia Place Names - GeorgiaInfo: An Online Georgia Almanac
• Hawaii Board on Geographic Names
• Idaho Geographic Names Program
• Idaho Place Names Origins
• Indiana Board on Geographic Names
• Illinois Natural Resources Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
• Iowa GenWeb: Iowa Communities and Counties (Past & Present)
• Kansas Historical Society: Little Known or "Extinct Towns", ca. 1940
• Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer
• Louisiana History: Old and New Place Names
• Maine Geological Survey: Geography--Frequently Asked Questions
• Maine Geological Survey: Geologically Speaking, What’s in a Place Name [pdf]
• Maryland Municipalities
• Archaic Community, District, Neighborhood Section and Village, Names in Massachusetts
• Michigan's Place Names
• Minnesota Place Names
• Minnesota: Naming Geographic Features
• The Mississippi 1885 Atlas and Gazetteer
• Missouri Board on Geographic Names
• Montana Geographic Names Advisor
• Montana Place Names
• Nevada State Board on Geographic Names
• The State of New Jersey Localities
• New Hampshire Place Names
• New York State Library: Finding Places
• North Carolina Board on Geographic Names
• North Dakota Place Names
• The Influence of Geology in Ohio Place-Names
• Oklahoma Board on Geographic Names - Oklahoma Geological Survey
• Oklahoma Board on Geographic Names [pdf]
• Oregon Geographic Names Board
• Pennsylvania Geographic Names Legal Code
• Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
• American Indian Place Names in Rhode Island
• South Carolina Place Names
• South Dakota Board on Geographic Names
• Tennessee Committee on Geographic Names
• Tennessee Place Names and Post Offices
• Geographic Information of Texas
• Texas Geographic Names Committee
• Utah Geographic Names Committee
• Vermont Geographic Names Authority - State Board of Libraries
• Gazetteer of Vermont Places
• Researching Virginia Place Names [pdf]
• Washington Committee on Geographic Names
• 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
• New Zealand - Find Antarctic Names
• United Kingdom -  Antarctic Place-Names Committee

Countries

Australia

National

• Gazetteer of Australia
• Australian National Placenames Survey

State

• Australian Capital Territory Place Names Committee(Canberra)
• Geographical Names Board of NSW (New South Wales)
• Place Names Committee for the Northern Territory
• Nomenclature Board of Tasmania
• VICNAMES: Register of Geographic Names [Victoria]
• South Australian State Gazetteer
• Queensland Place Names

Belgium

• BELGIUM-ROOTS Project

Canada

National

• Canadian Geographical Names: English, French

Province

• Alberta Geographical Names
• Place Names of Alberta
• Place Names of Alberta (as of December 2010)
• Friends of Geographical Names of Alberta
• British Columbia Geographical Names
• Manitoba Geographical Names Program
• Nova Scotia's Geographical Names
• Nunavut Planning Commission
• Ontario Geographic Names Board Act
• Ontario Geographic Names
• Commission de toponymie du Quebec (in French, includes link to English translation)

China

• China Historical GIS

Mexico

• Digital Map of Mexico (Spanish only)

Estonia

• Place Names Board of Estonia

Ghana

• Ghana Place Names

Ireland

• The LOCUS Project

New Zealand

• New Zealand Geographic Place Names

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
• GEOnet Names Server (GNS)
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
• UNGEGN World Geographical Names (Countries, and cities)

Planetary

• International Astronomical Union - Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Other Related Federal Information Servers

• The National Map
• U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer Files
• Environmental Protection Agency Surf Your Watershed

Miscellaneous Geographic Name Sites

• American Name Society
• Alexandria Digital Library
• Coeur d'Alene Tribe Native Names Project
• The Columbia Gazeteer of the World
• GeoNative - Put minority and native languages on the map
• The JewishGen Communities Database and JewishGen Gazetteer - Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East - 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

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