Maps: Gazetteers

Links to various country gazetteers. Maintained by the Permanent Commitee for Geographical Names (PCGN) for British official use.

Collection of links to web based gazetteers maintained by Arizona State University Libraries. Includes world and country gazetteers.

Provides access to the United States National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) database of foreign (i.e. non-USA) geographic feature names. Includes approximately 5 million features and 7 million feature names. Use the Text based search page for easiest access.

Gazetteer of places with an emphasis on places important for art and architecture. Produced by the Getty Research Institute.

Search across three historic gazetteers of GB: John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales (1872); Frances Groome's The Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1885); John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887).

Maintained by the Robertson Trust. "The first comprehensive gazetteer of Scotland since 1885."

GNIS has information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States. Also covers Antarctica. Developed by the United States Geological Survey and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.

Full text - can be browsed or searched. Part of a much larger historical resource on South Asia - the Digital South Asia Library.

The gazetteer provides information on the location and spelling of more than 370,000 geographical names across Australia and its external Territories.