The Queen's University Library collection includes atlases, sheet maps, digital maps, air photos and gazetteers. For more information about these resources, please check the Maps and Geospatial Information page. A few suggestions:
Over 5 million names.
A database of names, descriptions, and characteristics of over 165,000 places in the world....
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) (World) A structured vocabulary containing more than one million names and other information about places. The emphasis is on places that are important for art and architecture.
Over 2 million physical and cultural geographic features.
Tip: To locate more gazetteers and guides to geographical names, try subject keywords in Omni search. Try "Gazetteer" AND "Place-name" or "Geographical names" AND "Place-name".
