About.com - Geography - Weekly articles and quizzes about geography, annotated links to hundreds of sites, a free email newsletter, a chat room and forum devoted to geography, and much more.
Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer Server - ADL Gazetteer. If you search for a placename ADL not only provides a map, but gives also a link to search in Yahoo!
Ancient Geography - Brief introduction to the origins of Geography.
Ancient Scottish and Pictish names - Sharon L Krossa’s page including “A Simple Guide to Constructing 12th Century Scottish Gaelic Names” and “A Consideration of Pictish Names”.
Antarctic Place-names Commission - It features a national gazetteer listing all Bulgarian place names in Antarctica with description of the relevant geographical features.
Australian Geographic Place Names (Gazetteer) - Search the Gazetteer of Australia which is a compilation of geographic names of Australia provided by members of the Committee for Geographic Names in Australia. The data are as supplied by AUSLIG in June 1996.
Axion Geographic Search Engine - Search by placenames. Provides maps of places searched.
Belgium-Roots - Placename index for Belgium.
Canadian Name Origins. - By the Canadian Geographical Names Board..
Color Landform Atlas of the United States
Contents of Physical Geography journals - Overview of the contents of a large number of Physical Geography journals and periodicals.
Country Names and common prefixes for Amateur Radio
Country names by ISO 2-letter codes. - These codes are the ones used in Internet domain names.
Country names by ISO 3-letter codes. - ISO 3166 country names and codes; and also country and region codes in CEFDA (common exchange format for development activity information)
Cultural Profiles Project - In-depth information about the cultures in different countries, from Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
Cyber-Geography Research - A WWW resource list given pointers to a wide range of information on the geographies of the Internet, WWW and cyberspace
Dale Lightfoot's Virtual Cultural Geography Lesson - a gallery of pictures covering many aspects of cultural geography.
E-Conflict World Encyclopedia - Cultural infomation on each country in the world.
E-scapes home page - Electronic Resources for the Study of Ancient Landscapes
Finland, Toponyms Data Bank - Set up by the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
French town locator - IGN index to communes (towns/villages) of France
Fundamentals of Physical Geography - The site is a detailed online textbook for university and college students studying physical geography. Many links to related internet sites are given.
Geo-Globe Interactive Geography - Test your geographic knowledge on this online game and quiz site. Contians geographic web resources that allow you to explore world geography in greater detail.
Geographic Learning Site - Geography site with maps, geographic news, country information, flags, geography facts, and more.
Geographic.org - Learn about world geography, climate, countries, people, maps, flags and much more. Intended for elementary through junior high school students.
GEOGRAPHY Database - GEOGRAPHY, from Elsevier Science Ltd., is a comprehensive database containing both bibliographic references and extensive abstracts to information in the field of geography.
Geography Links - Web directory of general geography links provided by the University of Northern Iowa.
Geography Resource Center - Internet Resources for Geographers
Geography Resources on the Internet - An ever expanding list of links to geography resources on the Web.
Geography World - A massive collection of links on all aspects of geography.
GeoNative - "Put minority languages on the map!": Comprehensive lists of minority place names from all over the world from native peoples, nations without state and language minorities (in Basque and English).
GEOSOURCE homepage - Over 3000 web resources for human geography, physical geography, planning, geoscience and environmental science. With almost daily updates. Provided by Utrecht University Library.
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names - Compiled by the Getty Research Institue, TGN is a structured vocabulary developed primarily for the field of art history, but can be used in any in many other applications. The thesaurus contains nearly 1 million place names representing approximately 900,000 places.
GIS and Mapping Links - Links to Geography, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Mapping sites on the internet. All links are verified every month.
Global Warming (The Warming of the Earth) - The Woods Hole Research Center - Presentation of the scientific evidence of global warming.
GNIS Online Database Query - Geographic Names Information System, from the USGS (US Geological Survey); searchable database with about 2 million entries
GNS: GEOnet Names Server - Global searchable database set up by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), US. Foreign place names as approved by the US Board of Geographic Names, other name variants. Approx. 3.3 million entries
Historic Ruthenian placenames - Lists compiled at the Carpatho-Rusyn website.
Index of old German names of the localities in Poland & Russia. - by Anna Sluszkiewicz.
Information Please: Geography Resource - Geographic facts, lists, and statistics, including highest mountains, longest rivers, latitudes and longitudes, and explorations and expeditions.
International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS) - Home Page. Located at Leuven, Belgium: onomastics in general and toponymy in particular
Internet Geography: Physical Geography Resources - List of links to web resources in physical geography.
Internet Resources for Physical Geography - Extensive list of links to sites pertaining to various subdisciplines of Physical Geography.
IreAtlas Townland Search - Search places in Ireland. Does not cover Irish-language (Gaelic) placenames.
JewishGen ShtetlSeeker - Town search for most of central and eastern Europe. Finds not only Jewish settlements, but virtually any location.
Jobs in Geography - What are the characteristics of a professional geographer?
Latin names of towns - This list gives English or other vernacular forms for the Latin names of printing towns as found in early printed books.
Links to Lakes of the World. - Famous lakes from around the world. Photographic images of natural and man-made lakes.
Map Quiz - Map and Geography Trivia - Map and Geography trivia game. Questions include countries, U.S. States, capitals and flags.
Maps and Geography - Map machine of National Geographic
MapSite - National Land Survey of Finland - WWW map service and placename locator for Finland. Registration needed.
Megamaps-Walk through the Continents! - FREE-print out maps of various sizes, up to 7 feet across, on an ordinary PC printer. World or US maps can be printed. They can be used to learn mountains and rivers, to trace historic journeys, to draw, make or color as you learn about the US or the world.
Mojave Desert Study Project - Study of the physical geography of the Mojave desert.
Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport - Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport is an online geography class where students journey through time and space. Discover different people and cultures and further your study by following links.
Name Files of Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Kosovo - Downloadable databases and documents prepared by NIMA (a US institution) at its GNS site.
NASA's Global Change Master Directory - A comprehensive directory of information about Earth science data, including a broad coverage of the oceans, atmosphere, hydrosphere, solid earth, biosphere and human dimensions of global change.
National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) - A combat support agency of the Department of Defense. Established by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency Act of 1996, NIMA has a global mission and unique responsibilities to manage and provide imagery and geospatial information to national policy makers and military forces.
Nordic Place Names Database (NONDB) - Registration needed. Data from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.
Orbis Latinus - Latin placenames as compiled by Dr. J. G. Th. Graesse (1909).
Physical Geography Net Links - Guide to many Physical Geography sites
Physical Geography on the Internet. - A wide choice of links to sites dealing with earth surface features including natural hazards.
Physical Geography On-Line - An internet course in Physical Geography consisting of eight assignments.
Physical Geography sites on Internet - Index of articles about Daylight Saving Time, the hydrologic cycle, El Nino, rivers, seasons, ice ages, and more topics in Physical Geography
Place Name Board of Estonia - The official body of this little nation could serve as a model for the study and standardization of place names. Also very interesting global information and links
Place Names of Europe - Main cities and features. Their origins, and forms in distinct languages. Maintained by Jacek Wesolowski and Jan Salm.
Place Names Servers on the Internet - A collection of links by Arizona State University.
PlaceNames.com - Worldwide index of place names. A collection of links.
Planetary System Nomenclature - Naming places outside Planet Earth, by the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGSPN) of the International Astronomical Union
PLANSUS - Placename Survey of the United States
Provence city location - Locates places in the French region of Provence. Sorted alphabetically.
RBMS/BSC Latin Place Names File - Names as found in the imprints of books printed before 1801 and their vernacular equivalents in AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules) form.
Roman Gaul. - A useful gazetteer of places and people of Roman Gaul..
SCAR Antarctic Composite Gazetteer - Standardisation of the Antarctic toponymy. Searchable database includes 21,552 official names, corresponding to 16,563 features.
Scottish Place-Name Society - Gaelic name: Comann Ainmean-Aite Na h-Alba
Slovakia Gazetteer - On Line Encyclopedia of Slovakia
Soil and Water Conservation Society
Swedish Gazetteer - The Swedish Gazetteer from the National Atlas of Sweden currently contains almost 60,000 locations in Sweden. A succesfull search shows county and municipality, as well as location on a map of Sweden.
The Degree Confluence Project - The Degree Confluence Project contains photographs of the intersections of integer latitude and longitude degree lines.
The Distinctiveness of Geography - Systematic development of a series of definitions of various aspects and subdisciplines of Geography.
The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) - Excellent gazetteer with over 1 million names
The Global Gazetteer - 3.5 million place names in a commercial gazetteer (not to be consulted online, but to be purchased). Latitude/longitude, population, postcodes, administrative areas. Also some 40,000 ports and airports. Developed by ALLM Systems & Marketing.
The JewishGen ShtetlSeeker - Locates not only Jewish settlements in Central and Eastern Europe, but other placenames also. Covers linguistic and historic variants for names.
The Locus Project - The aim is to produce a new Historical Dictionary of Irish Placenames
The New Zealand Geographic Place-Names Database - Part of LINZ (Land Information New Zealand Databases).
The Six Essential Elements of Geography - What makes geography?
The START Natural Language Question Answering System - Come check out our demos and ask our systems questions in English! The MIT InfoLab Group develops intelligent interactive software systems that help people access information and solve problems on human terms.
The Whole Basque Place-Name List - Original Basque names for places that appear in French or Spanish in maps.
TORIS Project (Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia) - Model of the place names database for the Northern European part of Russia (articles, search model; in Russian)
Traveleye - General information from around the world.
UNGEGN - United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names. Located on the pages of the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, contains numerous information and also UN resolutions on the issue of place names.
US Census Bureau Geography - Mapping products and services, as well as geography resources used to compile the US Census.
US Geological Survey pages on the Board on Geographic Names (BGN) - Contains the online edition of Principles, Policies, and Procedures: Domestic Geographic Names.
US Names Gazetteer - Compilation of USGS, USPS and Census Bureau data
US State Department - Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty - Listing of nations recognized by the US government.
US State Department - Independent States of the World - Independent states with diplomatic relations with U.S. and member of UN. Country capitals, names, and more.
The Web of Culture - About cross-cultural communication. Also provides eneral geographic and social education on foreign nations and cultures, for preparation for visits from foreign countries.
USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service
Useful Geography Links - List of links to websites on geography
USGS -- Water Resources of the United States
USGS Global Change Research Program - The U.S. Geological Survey's Global Change Research Program is an international source for ground-based and remotely sensed earth science data and information used by global change researchers and contributing to assessments of the potential effects of global change on society.
USMARC Code List for Countries. - Country Names and different codings and listings for them.
Virtual Geography Department Project - Series of online course in geography including slide shows.
What is Physical Geography? - Short online course in Physical Geography.
Where? - An online geography games and quiz site.
World Gazetteer by ESRI - Enter a city, country or river name for which to search. ESRI stands for Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
World Geography by Regions - Internet resources for geography education.
World Wide Web Virtual Library - Geography - Web directory of resources in Geography, including educational links.
Worldwide Directory of Cities and Towns - Global Gazetteer by Carl Rosenberg. Placenames sorted by countries, then alphabetically.
Xpeditions @ nationalgeographic.com - Explore a virtual museum and a wealth of teaching resources.
XX International Congress of Onomastic Sciences - 20-25 Sep 1999 Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain)
Your own language and country - Information and links about all countries: tourism, dictionaries, search engines, life and religion.