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A Dictionary of English Place-Names

Published by Oxford University Press, 1998. Electronic Resource from Oxford Reference Online.
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AUSLIG gazetteer Place Name Search

Search the Gazetteer of Australia contains over 310 000 geographic names in Australia provided by members of the Committee for Geographic Names in Australasia.

The CIA World Factbook

Data for over 250 countries. For each country, quick facts are provided on topics including a map and flag, geography, population, government, economic, communication, transportation, and military.

The Columbia Gazetteer of North America

Published in 2000. From Bartleby.com

Country Profiles

Each country profile provides facts and data on geography, climate, people, religion, language, history and economy. From Atlapedia Online

Country Studies

About 100 country profiles Prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress US. Note some studies haven't been updated in several years, so use your judgment about what may have changed.

Geographic Names Information System

Retrieve maps and data on any geographic feature in the U.S.

GEOnet Names Server (GNS)

The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names' (US BGN) database of foreign geographic feature names. The database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the US BGN.

Getty thesaurus of geographic names

Structured vocabulary containing more than one million names and other information about places. Includes all continents and nations of the modern political world, as well as historical places, plus physical features and administrative entities, such as cities and nations 

How far is it?

Calculate distances between larger cities worldwide.

New Zealand Geographic Placenames Database

Intended to contain all official place names and non-official names as shown on the Topographic 260 maps. Contains over 55,000 names.

Search New Zealand Streets

The Authoritative Streets and Places Database - maintained by LINZ as a definitive and authoritative record of all streets in New Zealand.