Famous Places and Landmarks

Overview

A comprehensive bilingual geographic names and identity names, it contains famous geo-entities including landmarks, geoploitical establishemnts, place names such as shrines, schools, stations, castles, palaces and much more, all provided with ample information e.g. geographic coordinates where applicable, usages ranges from simple dictionaries to more advanced applications such as multilingual GIS packages, Arabic enabled navigation systems, localized toponymic systems, dedicated geographic search engines, etc.

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Technical Specifications

Sample downloads:

• TXT: larger text sample Database of Famous Places and Landmarks
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Reference: DBGEOFAM

Entries: 800,000+

Last updated: 4/2/2023

Field Definitions

Entry: place name
Roman: phonemic transcription of the place name
Arabic: Arabicization of the place name
Vocalized: vocalized Arabic pronunciation
Variant: variant pronunciation
Type: place name designation
Language: name language code
Transcript: standard transcription
Script: name language script codes
Country: country of origin, ISO country code
Latitude: latitude in DMS
Longitude: longitude in DMS

Sample