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Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online

Hrsg. v. Saul B. Cohen

Online

Inhalt :: Content

Renommiertes geografisches Referenzwerk mit Informationen zu über 170.000 Orten weltweit – von Ländern und Städten bis hin zu kleinen Dörfern, Provinzen und sogar Stadtvierteln. Enthalten sind geografische Daten (Längen- und Breitengrade, Höhenangaben, politische Grenzen), demografische Informationen (Bevölkerungszahlen, historische Entwicklungen), Informationen zu Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur (Industrie, Landwirtschaft, Handel, Verkehrswege) sowie zu kulturellen und historischen Kontexten (archäologische Stätten, historische Ereignisse, Namensvarianten). Updates: laufend.

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Columbia University Press

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101424

Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information

The Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online is a dynamic tool for understanding our complex world. The Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online provides users with access to authoritative information on more than 170,000 places and areas around the world.

This resource’s unparalleled coverage extends beyond the country level to states, cities, towns, provinces, counties, villages, hamlets, and neighborhoods. In addition to a wealth of statistical data, the Gazetteer provides rich, in-depth information about the economic, historical, and cultural context of places.

Features

• Gazetteer’s entries cover demography, physical geography, and political boundaries; industry, trade, and agriculture; cultural, historical, and archaeological points of interest; transportation lines, longitude, latitude, and elevations; official government place-names and changed or variant names and spellings.
• Historical population figures for selected places
• Interlinked glossary of geographic and geological terms
• Easy-to-use and powerful search and sort functions to find what you need

Audience

• High Schools—for basic reference and geography
• Higher Academic Institutions—create focused lists of places and attendant downloadable metadata for statistical studies or to document distribution of resources
• Public Libraries—for general reference, business information, travel information, and—most popularly—genealogical research
• Specialty Research Libraries—for research or, for the many news organizations that subscribe, reference and pronunciation of place-names
• Government Agencies—for national security, detailed information on strategic international and domestic locations