Database of names of geographic features worldwide, excluding the United States and Antarctica which are included in the Geographic Names Information System.

GNS provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) database geographic The database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (US BGN). GNS contains 3.81 million features with 5.24 million names. Provides name variants, latitute, longitude, feature type, adminstrative information, etc. Follow instructions carefully.