Description
CD-ROM contains every word of the three-volume Columbia Gazetteer of the World (Columbia University Press, 1998). Includes 165,000 entries, which can
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be searched by entry-heading place-names (as in the print edition) as well as by type of place or by full-text word and phrase searches of the entries. Entries typically include: demography; physical geography; political boundaries; industry, trade, and service activities; agriculture; cultural, historical, and archaeological 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. Entry categories include major geographic regions, countries, provinces, regions, states, districts, capitals, cities, towns, villages, neighborhoods, special districts, continents, oceans, seas, gulfs, lakes, lagoons, rivers, bays, inlets, channels, streams, islands, archipelagos, peninsulas, atolls, mountains, mountain ranges, canyons, deserts, valleys, glaciers, volcanoes, national parks, reserves and monuments, historical and archaeological sites, resorts, airports, ports, dams, nuclear plants, mines, canals, shopping malls, theme parks, stadia, military bases, fortified lines, and mythic places.
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