JewishGen Gazetteer - Data Contents

The JewishGen Gazetteer contains the names of all localities in the 54 countries of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The data is based on the U.S. Board on Geographic Names databases.

The database contains information about more than 1.8 million localities — nearly one million of which are "populated places" (i.e.: towns, cities, villages, etc.). The remaining localities are the names of geographical features (i.e.: lakes, rivers, mountains, etc.). The statistics for each country are in the table below.

		All Features			Populated Places
Country	USBGN Code	# of Localities	# of Synonyms	Total # of Placenames	# of Localities	# of Synonyms	Total # of Placenames	Gazetteer Date
Albania	AL	7,333	16,751	24,084	4,354	11,343	15,697	15/11/2010
Algeria	AG	53,414	13,097	66,511	8,125	3,840	11,965	07/04/2011
Armenia	AM	1,865	2,783	4,648	1,229	1,796	3,025	30/03/2011
Austria	AU	38,721	5,316	44,037	15,340	2,123	17,463	08/04/2011
Azerbaijan	AJ	6,122	9,634	15,756	4,684	7,691	12,375	18/04/2011
Belarus	BO	13,381	7,583	20,964	12,009	6,248	18,257	18/04/2011
Belgium	BE	20,437	7,994	28,431	12,679	4,779	17,458	03/02/2011
Bosnia-Herzegovina	BK	51,540	3,578	55,118	22,022	2,013	24,035	10/09/2009
Bulgaria	BU	8,721	17,186	25,907	6,424	14,455	20,879	01/03/2009
Croatia	HR	21,614	7,166	28,780	9,518	3,481	12,999	10/09/2009
Czech Republic	EZ	18,571	8,321	26,892	16,384	7,327	23,711	10/02/2011
Denmark	DA	13,919	5,578	19,497	7,159	2,530	9,689	03/03/2011
Egypt	EG	23,356	19,976	43,332	8,192	6,824	15,016	18/04/2011
Estonia	EN	6,896	7,270	14,166	5,325	4,658	9,983	30/11/2010
Finland	FI	43,479	9,876	53,355	12,761	2,918	15,679	14/04/2011
France	FR	73,993	23,600	97,593	58,229	16,956	75,185	18/04/2011
Georgia	GG	8,240	6,949	15,189	5,024	4,668	9,692	18/04/2011
Germany	GM	159,652	9,778	169,430	78,329	4,560	82,889	12/01/2011
Greece	GR	20,500	24,061	44,561	11,921	12,567	24,488	05/04/2011
Hungary	HU	23,293	6,588	29,881	15,891	3,742	19,633	18/04/2011
Iran	IR	159,614	267,632	427,246	78,662	161,104	239,766	18/04/2011
Iraq	IZ	42,228	71,482	113,710	22,520	43,247	65,767	18/04/2011
Italy	IT	26,142	7,457	33,599	17,791	3,648	21,439	18/04/2011
Kazakhstan	KZ	22,236	11,142	33,378	10,078	6,734	16,812	18/04/2011
Kyrgyzstan	KG	2,485	1,354	3,839	1,095	654	1,749	18/04/2011
Latvia	LG	8,395	8,186	16,581	4,632	4,814	9,446	17/02/2011
Lebanon	LE	23,867	19,044	42,911	3,487	4,964	8,451	18/04/2011
Libya	LY	21,137	17,270	38,407	807	1,229	2,036	18/04/2011
Lithuania	LH	8,769	12,885	21,654	6,962	11,070	18,032	04/04/2011
Luxembourg	LU	899	704	1,603	639	342	981	24/07/2009
Macedonia	MK	5,095	2,524	7,619	2,150	1,369	3,519	22/02/2011
Moldova	MD	2,268	5,124	7,392	1,776	4,311	6,087	31/03/2010
Montenegro	MJ	14,068	2,279	16,347	4,048	918	4,966	27/07/2010
Morocco	MO	37,964	24,402	62,366	15,820	14,823	30,643	04/04/2011
Netherlands	NL	17,191	4,385	21,576	7,406	2,088	9,494	22/02/2011
Norway	NO	54,677	29,364	84,041	9,118	4,565	13,683	17/03/2010
Poland	PL	48,236	13,954	62,190	44,479	11,634	56,113	18/04/2011
Portugal	PO	23,502	1,580	25,082	16,465	911	17,376	18/04/2011
Romania	RO	24,887	14,633	39,520	18,050	12,692	30,742	18/04/2011
Russia	RS	320,383	362,503	682,886	197,807	231,376	429,183	18/04/2011
Serbia	RI	24,041	4,949	28,990	9,487	3,103	12,590	18/04/2011
Slovakia	LO	6,999	2,716	9,715	4,969	1,992	6,961	08/04/2011
Slovenia	SI	4,294	2,718	7,012	3,399	2,065	5,464	02/02/2011
Spain	SP	40,714	12,918	53,632	27,553	9,130	36,683	23/03/2011
Sweden	SW	85,474	12,500	97,974	27,767	3,799	31,566	17/03/2010
Switzerland	SZ	4,011	1,272	5,283	3,080	577	3,657	25/02/2011
Syria	SY	17,015	20,343	37,358	8,501	11,778	20,279	18/04/2011
Tajikistan	TI	3,867	3,206	7,073	2,441	2,123	4,564	18/04/2011
Tunisia	TS	18,881	16,543	3,5424	1,756	2,135	3,891	04/04/2011
Turkey	TU	59,445	36,088	95,533	45,668	28,923	74,591	18/04/2011
Turkmenistan	TX	4,332	1,919	6,251	1,220	825	2,045	31/03/2011
Ukraine	UP	31,077	25,070	56,147	26,554	21,231	47,785	18/04/2011
Uzbekistan	UZ	6,684	3,904	10,588	4,405	2,403	6,808	18/04/2011
Yemen	YM	41,930	18,181	60,111	26,961	9,649	36,610	18/04/2011
TOTAL		1,827,854	1,253,316	3,081,170	973,152	746,745	1,719,897


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JewishGen Gazetteer – Data Contents