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Here i founded (and then copy paste) some links to geonames sites. In my opinion the best is the NGA portal, still take a look to some other ones... http://geonames.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html (regularly updated) Council of Geographic Names Authorities COGNAGeographic Names of Individual U.S. States University of Alabama Department of Geography Placenames Research Center Alaska's Geographic Names Program Arkansas Place Names Arizona State Board on Geographic and Historic Names California Advisory Committee on Geographic Names Colorado Place Names by County Colorado Board on Geographic Names Connecticut State Library - Unique Connecticut Place Names Connecticut State Library Delaware DataMIL Name Origin of Florida Places Georgia Archives: Geographic Names Hawaii Board on Geographic Names Idaho Geographic Names Program Idaho Place Names Origins Indiana Board on Geographic Names Illinois Natural Resources Geospatial Data Clearinghouse Iowa GenWeb: Iowa Place Names Kansas Historical Society: Little Known or "Extinct Towns", ca. 1940 Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer Louisiana History: Old and New Place Names Maine Geological Survey: Geography--Frequently Asked Questions Maine Geological Survey: Geologically Speaking, What’s in a Place Name [pdf] Maryland Municipalities Archaic Community, District, Neighborhood Section and Village, Names in Massachusetts Michigan's Place Names Minnesota Place Names Minnesota: Naming Geographic Features The Mississippi 1885 Atlas and Gazetteer Missouri Board on Geographic Names Montana Geographic Names Advisor Montana Place Names Nevada State Board on Geographic Names The State of New Jersey Localities New Hampshire Place Names New York State Library: Finding Places New York State Committee on Geographic Names North Dakota Place Names North Carolina Board on Geographic Names Oklahoma Board on Geographic Names [pdf] Oregon Geographic Names Board Pennsylvania Geographic Names Legal Code Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission American Indian Place Names in Rhode Island South Carolina Place Names South Dakota Board on Geographic Names Tennessee Committee on Geographic Names Tennessee Place Names and Post Offices Geographic Information of Texas Utah Committee On Geographic Names Gazetteer of Vermont Places Researching Virginia Place Names [pdf] Vermont Geographic Names Authority [pdf] Washington Committee on Geographic Names Place Names in West Virginia Wisconsin Geographic Names Council Wyoming Board of Geographic Names Antarctica SCAR - Composite Gazetteer Australia - Antarctic Names and Gazetteer Bulgaria - Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer New Zealand - Find Antarctic Names United Kingdom - Antarctic Place-Names Committee Countries Australia National Gazetteer of Australia Australian National Placenames Survey State Australian Capital Territory Place Names Committee(Canberra) Geographical Names Board of NSW (New South Wales) Place Names Committee for the Northern Territory Nomenclature Board of Tasmania VICNAMES: Register of Geographic Names [Victoria] South Australian State Gazetteer Queensland Place Names Belgium BELGIUM-ROOTS Project Canada National Canadian Geographical Names: English, French Province Alberta Geographical Names Place Names of Alberta Place Names of Alberta (as of December 2010) Friends of Geographical Names of Alberta British Columbia Geographical Names Manitoba Geographical Names Program Nova Scotia's Geographical Names Nunavut Planning Commission Ontario Geographic Names Board Act Ontario Geographic Names Commission de toponymie du Quebec (in French, includes link to English translation) China China Historical GIS China Institute of Geographical Names (Mandarin only) Mexico Digital Map of Mexico (Spanish only) Estonia Place Names Board of Estonia Ghana Ghana Place Names Ireland The LOCUS Project New Zealand New Zealand Geographic Place Names United Kingdom The Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use Gazetteer of British Place Names Ordnance Survey Gazetteer for Scotland World Fuzzy Gazetteer National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) GEOnet Names Server (GNS) Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names UNGEGN World Geographical Names (Countries, and cities) Planetary International Astronomical Union Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature Other Related Federal Information Servers U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer Files Environmental Protection Agency Surf Your Watershed Miscellaneous Geographic Name Sites American Name Society Alexandria Digital Library Coeur d'Alene Tribe Native Names Project The Columbia Gazeteer of the World GeoNative - Put minority and native languages on the map The JewishGen Communities Database and JewishGen Gazetteer - Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East - Central and Eastern Europe Latin Place Names - Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University Nipmuc Place Names of New England - Nipmuc Indian Association of Connecticut Miscellaneous Geographic Name Sites