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Global Gazetteer (in
English, from Falling Rain Genomics, Inc.) - This is a directory of over 2 million of
the World's cities and towns, sorted by country and linked to a map for each
town. A tab separated list is available for each country.
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Geonative (in Basque and English) - Lists and maps of minority name versions
for settlements for many World countries.
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Getty
Thesaurus of Geographic names (in English) - Type in the name of a
settlement and get information such as history, location, administrative area,
type of place and so on.
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Geographic Names Information System (in English) - databases (2 million
records) of geographic features and place names for the United States, and for
other places on the globe.
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Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer Server (in English) - search database
of more than 4 million place- and feature-names. Returns information
including latitude and longitude.
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International
Mailing Address Formats - (in English) - from Bitboost. A pretty
decent collection of information on international address formats. They're
not very complimentary about this site, but I'm a great defender of free speech!
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International Address
Formats - (in English)
- "Frank's compulsive guide to postal addresses". A hefty collection
of address format information, US-Centric, and mostly (but not always)
correct.
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International Address
Formats - (in English)
- formats for about 20 countries.
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International Address Formats
and forms of address - (in English)
- some limited address format and form of address information.
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International Address
Formats - (in English)
- formats for about 30 countries, unfortunately many incorrect. Apparently a mirror for the site above.
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Address formats for about 35 countries - (In English, from ZipcodeWorld) - data taken from the UPU website. |
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Address formats for about 35 countries - (In English, from Microsoft) |
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List of world country names in English - (in
French).
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List of world country names in Spanish - (in
French).
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List of world country names in French - (in French).
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List of world country names, with capitals, currencies, ISO code
etc. - (in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Greek,
Dutch, Portuguese, Finnish, Swedish) - from the European Union.
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Address Data Quality and Geocoding standards - (in
English) - an Amerocentric essay on this subject.
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Administrative divisions of countries ("Statoids") - (in
English) - set of links to pages providing information of administrative
divisions in different countries.
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Administrative divisions of countries - (in
English) - United Nations site, not always accurate, not many countries covered.
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World Gazetteer (in English) - information about countries: population,
administrative regions, main populated places' latitudes and longitudes.
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Data Management Info (in English) - data management resources and links site.
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Country information (in English) - country names in various languages, ISO and FIPS codes and other information
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Country codes (in English) - Country ISO 3166 and numeric codes.
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Afghanistan
(in English) - list of Afghanistan's provinces
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Australia
(in English) - correct addressing format.
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Australia
(in English) - place name lookup engine.
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Austria
(in English) - Maps and village lists of Burgenland, with village names in
German, Hungarian and Croatian.
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Belgium - (in English - Angloinfo) - Postal code and address format information (not entirely accurate).
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Bosnia-Hercegovina
(in English) - information on how to correctly write the address.
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Bosnia-Hercegovina
(in Bosnian) - information on how to correctly write the address.
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Canada -
(commercial) - Gazetteer - latitude and longitude of settlements
and geographical features.
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Canada - Official thoroughfare type abbreviations - Canadian
Post Office page. Scroll down the page to the text "Symbols Recognized by Canada Post -
Street Types" to request this page.
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Origins of Canada's
Geograhical names
(in English).
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Canada (in English)
- addressing guide, full details on addressing in Canada.
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Canada (in French)
- addressing guide, full details on addressing in Canada.
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Cayman Islands - (in
English) - online mail addressing guide.
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Cayman Islands - (in
English) - full mail addressing guide (pdf format).
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Colombia (in
Spanish) - address format information.
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Croatia (in
Croatian) - correct address
format and other postage information.
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Croatia (in English) - correct address
format and other postage information.
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Cyprus (in English) - correct Cyprus address
format, postal code format and other postal information.
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Denmark (in
Danish) - place name lists in pdf format.
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Egypt - (in English) - The Postal Museum |
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Estonia (in
English) - place name lists.
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France
(in French) - place name search engine.
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France - (in English - Angloinfo) - France postal code and address format information
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German place names
(in English) - information about German place names and naming conventions.
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Germany
(in German) - Correct addressing format.
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Guatemala
(in Spanish) - Correct addressing format.
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Hong Kong
(in English) - download (in Adobe Acrobat format) a complete guide to Hong Kong
postal services, including address formats, here.
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Ireland (in English) -
find details of post offices in Ireland.
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Ireland (in English) - Postal address format information. |
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Italy
(in Italian) - Correct addressing format.
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Japan (in English) - correct address
format
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Japan (in English) - correct address
format (old information, no longer valid)
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Latvia
(in Latvian) - shows correct address format for Latvia.
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Lithuania
(in Lithuanian) - shows correct address format for Lithuania.
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Lithuania
(in English) - shows correct address format for Lithuania.
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Luxembourg (in
French) - correct addressing guide.
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Luxembourg (in
English) - Lists of Luxembourg place names in French, Luxembourgeois and
German.
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Macedonia - (in English) - (from Macedonia Post) - Address format information.
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Macedonia - (in Macedonian) - (from Macedonia Post) - Address format information.
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Macedonia - (in Albanian) - (from Macedonia Post) - Address format information.
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Malaysia
(in English) - shows, amongst other things, correct address formats for Malaysia. Choose "Mail Services", "General Mailing Solutions","Letter".
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Malaysia (in English) - download post guide book. |
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Moldova (in Romanian) - shows correct address format for Moldova. |
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Morocco
(in French) - correct addressing guide. From the "Rubriques du site
Barid-al-maghrib" drop down, choose "Code Postal". Also
information under "Info Pratiques" and then "Comment présenter
une adresse?"
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The Netherlands - (in Dutch) - a database of Dutch places
with municipality, province, telephone area code, postcode range
and geographical co-ordinates. Press link to nl.zip or nl.dbf to
download. The field names in the resulting database file are also
in Dutch (it's a tough old World ....)
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The Netherlands - (in English - Angloinfo) - Postal code and address format information.
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New Caledonia
- (in French) - correct addressing format - choose "Le Code Postal"
and then "Presentation de l'Adresse".
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New
Zealand - (in English) - searchable database of New Zealand place- and
street names.
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New
Zealand - (in English) - Information on the correct addressing for New Zealand.
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Norway - (in Norwegian) - Information on the correct addressing for Norway.
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Portugal - (in English) - addressing guidelines from CTT.
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Puerto Rico - (in English) - (from the
USPS) - Spanish words and their abbreviations found in Puerto Rican
addresses.
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Puerto Rico - (in English) - (from the
USPS) - Puerto Rican address formats and rules - general information.
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Puerto Rico - (in English) - (from the
USPS) - Spanish directionals found in addresses.
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Russia - (in English) - St Petersburg street naming and addressing conventions explained.
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Serbia (in
Serbian) - address formatting information and information about a new postal code.
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Serbia (in
Serbian) - address formatting information and information about a new postal code.
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Slovenia (in
Slovenian) - correct addressing format.
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Spain - (in English, Angloinfo) - Postal code and address format information for Spain.
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Taiwan (in
English) - correct addressing format. Choose Hot Info then Address
Writing.
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Turkey
(in Turkish) - Choose "PTT Interactif" then "Posta Kodu"
then "Dogru
Adres Yazimi" for an explanation of correct address
formatting.
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Ukraine - (in English) - Tips on the address format to use.
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Ukraine- (in
Ukrainian) - Tips on the address format to use.
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United
States - Official Abbreviations - States
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United States - (in English, from Infoplease.com) - state names and (postal) abbreviations. |
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United
States - Official Abbreviations - Street Suffixes
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United
States - Official Abbreviations - Secondary Unit Designators
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United States - (in English),
from Melissa Data - place name/geographical feature name lookup.
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United
States - (in English) - enter a full United States' postal address and this
will return the address correctly formatted, including bar code.
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United States - (in
English) - Place name lists.
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United States Virgin
Islands - (in English) - (from the USPS) - correct addressing formats
explained.
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