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NGA GEOnet Names Server the GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names' (US BGN) database of foreign geographic feature names. The World Gazetteer for a given city it gives the country, province, population (incorrect for some countries), coordinates, population rank among all towns within the country (incorrect for some countries) for each country it gives a map and table of provinces with area and population, a map of cities, an alphabetical table of cities, and a table of top cities – tables can be sorted by a column of choice for each province it gives an alphabetical table of cities. Contains 2,900,000 towns outside the US. For a given country and town it gives coordinates, altitude, weather forecast, and a map showing the position of the town with respect to topography and borders and bodies of water (not with respect to other towns); it also lists towns which are very nearby, within 3 km, with direction. The Alexandria Digital Library at UCSB |
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