Toponymy is the field of science where geography meets with onomastics, the study of names. In short, this is about place names.
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- UNGEGN United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names. Contains information and resolutions on the issue of place names.
- Toponomastica Toponymy A database of place-names from the classical Greek and Roman sources, with comments on their etymology, in English, plus toponymy of the Abruzzese Appennine in Italian.
- Names of Countries in Seven Languages Database of country names in Finnish, Swedish, Saami, English, French, German and Russian.
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Compiled by the Getty Research Institute, 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.