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 90
- http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/

Geographical Names
- Cornucopia from the Geography Department of Laurentian University, Ontario including an investigation of the relationship between the author's name, Pitblado, and place names.
- http://geography.laurentian.ca/jrp/pitname/pit00.htm

World Ocean Bed History: Geographical Names
- Article on the toponymy of the ocean, undersea features and relief.
- http://vitiaz.ru/congress/en/thesis/111.html

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.
- http://digilander.libero.it/toponomastica/

BC Geographical Names
- Government site lists geographical naming principles and policy, how to propose a geographical name, access to the BC Geographical Names Information System (BCGNIS), links to BC-history/related sites, and to toponymy sites.
- http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/bcnames/

UNGEGN
- United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names. Contains information and resolutions on the issue of place names.
- http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/about_us.htm

A Political World Gazetteer
- An outline of the world's political divisions, organized by continent, nation, national subdivision, and further geographic areas.
- http://www.frognet.net/~jaknouse/gazindx.html

International Alternative Country Names
- A list of names for existing countries and some regions and islands that differ from the standard international and/or English nomenclatures.
- http://www1.tip.nl/~t100878/altname.htm

World Gazetteer by ESRI
- Enter a city, country or river name for which to search. ESRI stands for Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
- http://maps.esri.com/scripts/esrimap.dll?name=gaz_avd&cmd=start

Place Names Servers on the Internet
- A collection of links by Arizona State University.
- http://www.asu.edu/lib/hayden/govdocs/maps/geogname.htm

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
- http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/