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Geography

Resources at the University of Michigan for research in geography.

Databases

Canada's Geographical Names
Search for geographic names in Canada.
Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
Contains informaton about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States.

GEONet Names Server This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (formerly Defense Mapping Agency) database of foreign geographic feature names.

Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names
This thesaurus contains around 1,000,000 names and other information about places, including all continents and nations of the modern political world, historical places, physical features, and administrative entities, such as cities and nations.

Clark Library Holdings

The Clark Library offers several Geographic Names resources.

The U.S. Dept of the Interior Geographic Names is available online.
items available through U of M can be found through a search of Library Catalog Search with search terms 'geographic names' followed by the area you want to research