The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eleven million placenames that are available for download free of charge.

Prefix

geonames

Alternative Prefixes

Geomames Geonamaes

Keywords

geographic location geography geoinformatics ontology

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage OBO OWL OBO JSON

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in GeoNames should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

3532759   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from GeoNames should match this regular expression:
^geonames:\d+$

Example CURIE

geonames:3532759

Contact

Marc Wick

Contributors

submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection (7)

NFDI4Culture Collection NFDI4Earth Collection FAIRagro Collection NFDI4Objects Collection NFDI4Memory Collection Text+ Collection NFDI4Biodiversity Collection

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 4 mappings to external registries with 4 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 3532759 is used to demonstrate the providers available for GeoNames. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.