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  1. [cartography] A list of geographic place-names and their coordinates. Entries may include other information as well, such as area, population, or cultural statistics. Atlases often include gazetteers, which are used as indexes to their maps. Well-known digital gazetteers include the U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and the Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer.

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