A selection of websites throughout the world dealing with geographical names
Updated 22 September 2021
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Worldwide
For names of populated places and features throughout the world, excluding those in the United States or the Antarctic, search the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) .
PCGN works closely with US BGN and the names in the GNS largely follow PCGN policy.
Read more on the .
Please contact PCGN in case specific clarification is needed.
Selection of national websites are below:
Australia
Australia鈥檚 national mapping agency site
Austria
[Arbeitsgemeinschaft f眉r Kartographische Ortsnamenkunde, AKO].
Canada
Visit the website of the at Natural Resources Canada.
Search the for information about geographical names in Canada.
The website.
Croatia
.
Cyprus
Czechia
Denmark
This site contains an alphabetical listing of authorised place names in . In Danish.
Estonia
of Estonia: This site includes information on the Board and lists of geographical names in Estonia.
Visit the , the access point for the National Topographic Database, the Address Data System and the National Place Names Register. A searchable database of places in Estonia is available by visiting the .
Finland
, including a page on
France
Information on geographical names work in France at the . In French.
Germany
Search for geographical names using the gazetteer-web service at the website.
(Germany鈥檚 Permanent Committee on Geographical Names). In German.
Guatemala
Visit the website for Guatemala (In Spanish).
Hungary
Search the .
Iceland
Information about Iceland鈥檚 place names can be found at the .
Ireland
.
Japan
Browse Japan鈥檚 and on the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan website.
Latvia
and .
The includes a database of .
Lithuania
New Zealand
Search for place names in New Zealand at the .
Norway
website, and is also available to download.
Poland
Slovakia
The Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre Authority of the Slovak Republic. . In Slovak.
Slovenia
South Africa
Background information is available in the .
South Korea
includes information on language, names and sources.
Spain
.
Sweden
Use the National Land Survey internet service to find officially approved place-name data. In Swedish.
Switzerland
Federal Office of Topography. Search .
United States
The US Board on Geographic Names鈥� US database is managed by the US Geological Survey. Search for place names within the United States and its territories.
Undersea feature names
Visit the website of the to learn about the .
For names approved by the US Board on Geographic Names鈥� Advisory Committee on Undersea Features, visit the . 鈥淯ndersea Features鈥� is listed amongst the geographical entities on the query form.
For names treated by the Geographical Names Board of Canada Advisory Committee on Undersea and Maritime Feature Names, visit the , then select 鈥淯ndersea Features鈥� as the type of GeoNames query.
Planetary names
For information on planetary names and to download an alphabetical list of names from the International Astronomical Union is available on the .