Geographical database available and accessible through various web services
For similar geographical items, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography, Wikipedia:WikiProject Geology, and Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features).
Not to be confused with GEOnet Names Server.
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Worldwide density of GeoNames entries in 2006
GeoNames (or GeoNames.org) is a user-editable geographical database available and accessible through various web services, under a Creative Commons attribution license. The project was founded in late 2005.[1]
The GeoNames dataset differs from, but includes data from,[2] the US Government's similarly named GEOnet Names Server.
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Grenadines". GeoName. Retrieved October 3, 2021. "Islands of Trinidad and Tobago". GeoNames. Retrieved October 3, 2021. "Islands of Anguilla". GeoNames. Retrieved...
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June 2020. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help) "Barbados Islands". GeoNames. Retrieved 22 September 2021. "Cape Verde country profile". BBC News. 5...
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[1][dead link] "GeoNames Government of Canada site". Archived from the original on 2009-02-06. Belluck, Pam (2004-11-20). "What's the Name of That Lake?...
Resource Identifier (URI) for geographic locations using the 'geo' scheme name. A 'geo' URI identifies a physical location in a two- or three-dimensional...
addresses of OpenStreetMap points (reverse geocoding). Data from Nominatim and GeoNames are used for the search functionality in the OSM website. "RapiD" is a...
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Retrieved 21 September 2014. "Islands of Italy". GeoNames. Retrieved 11 October 2021. "Islands of Turkey". GeoNames. "15 must see islands in Turkey". Daily Sabah...
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Affairs, Government of India. 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2014. "GeoNames.org". www.geonames.org. Retrieved 5 October 2022. "Paramakudi - Ramanathapuram District...
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