About Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
The Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online provides electronic access to a geographical encyclopedia of names, descriptions, and characteristics of over 165,000 places in the world. Entries include demography, physical geography, political boundaries, industry, trade, and service activities, agriculture, cultural, historical, and archeological points of interest, transportation lines, longitude, latitude, and elevations, distance to relevant places, pronunciations, official local government place-names and changed or variant names and spellings. The Gazetteer is a valuable tool for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, and environmentalists.