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GeoNames

geographical database available and accessible through various web services, operated by Unxos GmbH
Organization Geographical Names Database Q830106

Facts

17 properties

Identity

Instance of
geographical names database, knowledge organization system, data library, knowledge graph[2][3][4]
Official website
www.geonames.org[15]
Native label
GeoNames[19]

Status and dates

Inception
2005[13]

Location

Country
Switzerland[1]

Industry and activity

Has use
discovery[10]

People

Founder
Marc Wick[5]

Relations

Has part(s)
GeoNames ontology[12]
More facts +9
Language of work or name
English[11]
Publication date
2005[14]
Collection
Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace, Text Analysis Portal for Research[6][7]
Copyright license
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International[8][9]
Copyright status
copyrighted[22]
Different from
Geonames, GEOnet Names Server[20][21]
Main Wikidata property
P1566[18]
Main subject
Earth science[16]
Topic has template
Template:Geonameslink[17]
🏷️ Also known as
en community geonames en GeoNames en geonames.org ar أسماء جغرافية ar جيونيمز de geonames.org es geonames.org fa جئونیمز fr geonames.org he GeoNames he ג'יאוניימס ko 지오네임스 ko 지오네임즈 ms GeoNama ms geonames.org ru Геонеймс zh 地理名字库 zh 地理名字庫
🔖 Identifiers · 16
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
GeoNames screenshot.png ↗
API endpoint URL
fornpunkt.se
AlternativeTo ID
geonames
BARTOC ID
1674
Described at URL
tapor.ca, marketplace.sshopencloud.eu
FactGrid item ID
ISO 3166-2:RE
Freebase ID
/m/02rnzcx
KBpedia ID
GeoNames
LC and MARC vocabularies ID
identifiers/geonames
Linked Open Data Cloud ID
geonames-semantic-web
Mailing list archive URL
groups.google.com
Official blog URL
geonames.wordpress.com
Show all 16 identifiers +4
Official forum URL
forum.geonames.org
Quora topic ID
GeoNames
Semantic Scholar topic ID
312832
Sitemap URL
www.geonames.org

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🔗 Connections
Collection 2
Text Analysis Portal for Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace
Belongs to 1
KBpedia
Country 1
Switzerland
FactGrid item ID 1
ISO 3166-2:RE
Has use 1
discovery
Instance of 1
data library
Language of work or name 1
English
Main subject 1
Earth science
Topic has template 1
Template:Geonameslink
← Template has topic 1
Template:Geonameslink
← Uses 1
GRID
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GeoNames was founded by Marc Wick[1][2].

Related Entities

Earth science Switzerland

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [1] ↑ . who.is. who.is. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . Open Access Directory. Retrieved . web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . doi.org. Retrieved . doi.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . XING. Retrieved . geospatialweb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . tapor.ca. tapor.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . download.geonames.org. Retrieved . download.geonames.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . download.geonames.org. Retrieved . download.geonames.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . Open Access Directory. Retrieved . web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13d ago · Hobbema · 2026-10-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → http://www.geonames.org/
    "Removed claim: Official website: https://www.geonames.org/"
  2. 9w ago · Lemoncheddar · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Copyright license → Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
    Instance of → geographical names database, knowledge organization system, data library +1
    "Created claim: Instance of: knowledge graph, Add instance of knowledge graph, sourced to Mai et al., DOI 10.1145/3653070, section 4.2 (explicitly identifies GeoNames as a geospatial K"
  3. 21w ago · Nintendofan885 · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Copyright status → copyrighted
    Language of work or name → English
    Main subject → Earth science
    Collection → Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace, Text Analysis Portal for Research
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim: Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported"
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