Geographical Names

Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) - contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States.

GEOnet Names Server - the GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (formerly Defense Mapping Agency) database of foreign geographic feature names.

Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names - this thesaurus contains around 1,000,000 names and other information about places, including all continents and nations of the modern political world, historical places, physical features, and administrative entities, such as cities and nations.

Canada's Geographical Names - search for geographic names in Canada.