The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (abbreviated Getty TGN or GTGN) is a product of the J. Paul Getty Trust included in the Getty Vocabulary Program. The Thesaurus includes names and other information about places such as cities, countries, nations and their associated physical features like mountains, coasts and rivers. Other information related to history, population, culture, art and architecture is included.

The resource is available to museums, art libraries, archives, visual resource collection catalogers, bibliographic projects through private license or available to students or members of the general public through Getty TGN Online.

See also

• United Nations Conferences on Standardization of Geographical Names
• Geographic Names Board
• Geographic Names Information System
• United States Board on Geographic Names
• South African Geographical Names Council
• Geographic coordinate system
• Geographic references

Sources

Human geography | Online databases

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names | Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names