gazetteer

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I’m carrying my favorite gazetteer, discovered in a book store in nearby Rochester on a previous foray: Colonel W. Laurence Gadd’s “The Great Expectations Country,” published in 1929 and long out of print.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2018

If knowledge is power, then the British government's secret gazetteer of the Gulf, known simply as "Lorimer" after its author, epitomises the scale of imperial ambition.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2014

The original resolution contained a list of other forgotten places in eastern Europe and Eurasia that today make it sound like a gazetteer of Middle Earth: Cossackia, Idel-Ural, Turkestan, White Ruthenia.

From Slate • Jul. 24, 2014

Another case where you need human intelligence applied to the official gazetteer of Australian locations - which shows multiple entries for "Mount Isa"; some are population centres, some aren't.

From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2012

A gazetteer of localities mentioned in the text and a list of literature cited follow the accounts of species.

From Some Reptiles and Amphibians from Korea by Byers, George W.