Europe:

	EuroGeoNames Central (WFS) Service
	EGN Reference Application

 Australia:

Australian Surveying and Land Information Group: Gazetteer of Australia

 Belgium:

Places in Belgium: Belgium Roots Project

 Bulgaria:

Antarctic Place-names Commission: Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer

 Canada:

	Geographical Names Board of Canada web site: English: http://geonames.NRCan.gc.ca French: http://toponymes.RNCan.gc.ca
	British Columbia – BC Geographical Names Information System
	Northwest Territories – NWT Geographic Names

 Denmark:

Ministry of Culture: Danish place-name files in pdf or mdb format

 Estonia:

Place-name data at the Institute of the Estonian Language: Some 60,000 names and name variants covering different types of geographical features in Estonia (populated places, administrative units, natural features, streets, etc.) Place Names Database (KNAB) Street names of Tallinn List of country names (in Estonian)

List of publicly used bodies of water: List endorsed by the Estonian Government on 18 July 1996 on the pages of the Estonian National Maritime Board

 Finland:

National Land Survey of Finland: MapSite, a public map locator with place-name and street/road address query

 Hungary:

Concise list of town names

 Germany:

German names database and web service http://www.bkg.bund.de/nn_159870/EN/FederalOffice/Products/Geo-Data/Geographical-Names/GN__node.html http://www.bkg.bund.de/nn_159992/EN/FederalOffice/Geoinformation/GI__Distribution/GI__ Distribution__node.html__nnn=true#doc159994bodyText2

 Italy:

"Toponimi d’Italia IGM 97" Sample data from the digital toponymic data set produced by  L’Istituto Geografico Militare http://www.nettuno.it/fiera/igmi/toponimi.htm

List of toponyms in Luxembourgish, French and German, compiled by the Institut Grand-Ducal, Section de Linguistique, de Folklore et de Toponymie

List of place-names

Gazetteer search

Official Norwegian place name database

	Slovene Governmental Commission for the Standardisation of Geographical Names
	Interactive Atlas of Slovenia, maps in scale 1:600,000, 1:300,000 and 1:50,000

National Atlas of Sweden: The Gazetteer of Sweden

	Ordnance Survey (OS) Great Britain: Map locator service with place-name query
	Ordnance Survey: Geo-referenced street dataset "National Street Gazetteer (NSG)"

United States Board on Geographic Names: Database of domestic place-names "Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)" – the national repository of official standard place-names of features in the United States and its possessions http://geonames.usgs.gov/

Databases with International Scope:

	U.S. Board on Geographic Names: GEOnet Names Server: Foreign place-names approved by the US BGN Foreign Names Committee
	Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Gazetteer Server
	Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Antarctica:

	Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR): Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
	U.S. Board on Geographic Names: Database of the US BGN Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
	Antarctic Place-names Commission: Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer

Undersea Features:

	U.S. Board on Geographic Names: Database of the US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html: Access GEOnet, then select "Undersea Features" in the list of geographic entities on the query form
	Geographical Names Board of Canada: Database of the GNBC Advisory Committee on Undersea and Maritime Feature Names http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/english/cgndb.html: Select "Undersea features" as the type of GeoNames query

Extraterrestrial Features:

International Astronomical Union: Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature: Gazetteer of Planetary Feature Nomenclature

For Inquisitive Minds …

The Google Web Directory:

Links to many sites on place-names