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Chinese Conventional Place Names | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/china.html
The Library of Congress is beginning the process of revising the Chinese place names currently established in a conventional English-language form to the ...

History of English Place-Names | http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/engplnam.html
An essay from the Society for Creative Anachronism, with bibliography.

Tacoma Public Library - Washington Place Names | http://search.tpl.lib.wa.us/wanames/
A search engine providing the history of names in the state. The user can search by keyword, sounds like, and notes keyword.

NGA: GNS Home | http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/
Putting a Name to a Place. Click Here for the OGC Viewer GNS Search Page. Provides access to Web Map Services (WMS) interface and a high level graphical ...

Georgia Place-Names by Kenneth K. Krakow | http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/georgia_place-names.htm
3rd edition, 1999. Full text (in PDF files) of a book by Kenneth K. Krakow. Information on names of counties, towns, rivers and creeks, post offices, ...

Genealogy Quest - NJ (and PA) Place Names | http://www.genealogy-quest.com/collections/njplace.html
A table showing the changes to place names in the present state of New Jersey.

Serendipity | http://nine.frenchboys.net/country.php
This generator creates names suitable for countries, continents, cities, or other large areas. It is constructed from elements of real place names, ...

Place Names | http://www.roman-empire.net/diverse/places.html
Also please consider that later latinizations of place names, for places like Moskow for example, will not be placed on the list. It is the Roman names of ...

RBMS/BSC Latin Place Names File | http://net.lib.byu.edu/~catalog/people/rlm/latin/names.htm
Locations from the imprints of books before 1801 and their vernacular equivalents (Brigham Young University).

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Research at the Getty) | http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/
There is an implied AND between the Find Name, Place Type, and Nation fields. About the TGN Learn about the purpose, scope and structure of the TGN. ...

Georgia Place Names Home Page | http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/placenamesindex.htm
Georgia Place Names Home Page ...

Geographic Names | http://www.nima.mil/gns/html/index.html
The database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the US BGN. Approximately 20000 of the database's features are updated ...

Alberta Place Name Index - Old & New | http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~canab/places/places.html
Alberta place name index, old and new. ... The index now has nearly 8000 place names in Alberta including cities, towns, villages, hamlets, localities, ...

U.S. Place & Geographic Names | http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/placenames.asp
Free Place & Geographinc Names Lookup for the nation with over a million places.

American Indian Place Names | http://www.infoplease.com/spot/aihmnames1.html
How various places got their names. ... Search: Infoplease Info search tips. Search: Biographies Bio search tips. American Indian Place Names ...

Edward Callary / Place Names of Illinois | http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/33nxw6km9780252033568.html
A comprehensive compendium of Illinois place names and their unique history.

The Whole Basque Place-Name List | http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/5062/topo2.html
Original Basque names for places that appear in French or Spanish in maps.

Family history: maps and place-names | http://www.maphistory.info/family.html
map and place-name resources for family historians and genealogists.

Pitcairn Place Names | http://www.lareau.org/pitplace.html
JOHNNY FALL - [N] The place on the northern coast, located north of where the school stands today, where John Mills Jr. fell to his death. ...