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Geographic Names Information System

geographical database
Place Online Database Q136736

Facts

19 properties

Identity

Instance of
online database, geographical names database[3]
Official website
geonames.usgs.gov (?–2021), www.usgs.gov (2022–present)[10]
Official name
Geographic Names Information System[16]

Location

Country
United States[2]
More facts +15
Language of work or name
English[7]
Website
geonames.usgs.gov, www.usgs.gov
Part of
Semantic Web[6]
Copyright status
public domain
Derivative work
OpenStreetMap database
Developer
National Geospatial Program[5]
Has characteristic
dirty data[18]
Has part(s)
GNIS Feature ID, GNIS Antarctica ID[8][9]
Has parts
GNIS Feature ID, GNIS Antarctica ID
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Cultural Heritage and GLAM catalogues
Operator
United States Board on Geographic Names[4]
Related Wikidata property
P590, P804[19][20]
State of use
offline (2021–present), online
Title
Geographic Names Information System[17]
Topic has template
Template:GNIS, Template:GNIS 2, Template:GNIS 3, Template:GNIS 4, Template:Cite gnis[11][12][13][14][15]
🏷️ Also known as
en Geographic Names Information System en GNIS ar Geographic Names Information System ar نظام معلومات الأسماء الجغرافية de GNIS de Geographical Names Information System en-gb GNIS es Sistema de información de Nombres Geográficos fa سامانه اطلاعات نام‌های جغرافیایی fr GNIS he מערכת המידע לשמות גאוגרפיים hi भौगोलिक नाम सूचना प्रणाली hu GNIS id GNIS it GNIS ja ジオグラフィック・ネームズ・インフォメーション・システム ja Geographic Names Information System ja GNIS ja 地名情報システム ko 지명 정보 시스템
🔖 Identifiers · 10
VIAF cluster ID
183593125
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n98034355
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Usgs-headquarters.jpeg ↗
Datahub page
geographic-names-information-system-gnis
FAQ URL
www.usgs.gov
FAST ID
1380668
Freebase ID
/m/01zc3y
LC and MARC vocabularies ID
subjectSchemes/gnis, identifiers/gnis
Linked Open Data Cloud ID
geographic-names-information-system-gnis
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
39154926

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🔗 Connections
Topic has template 5
Template:Cite gnis, Template:GNIS, Template:GNIS 3, Template:GNIS 4, Template:GNIS 2
← Template has topic 5
Template:Cite gnis, Template:GNIS, Template:GNIS 3, Template:GNIS 4, Template:GNIS 2
State of use 2
online, offline
Copyright status 1
public domain
Country 1
United States
Instance of 1
online database
Language of work or name 1
English
Operator 1
United States Board on Geographic Names
Part of 1
Semantic Web
← Described by source 1
Skep Point
← FactGrid item ID 1
Talmay
← SNARC ID 1
Monmouthshire
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Summary

Geographic Names Information System is an online database[1].

Related Entities

public domain Semantic Web United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . usgs.gov. Retrieved . usgs.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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