ArcGIS Data Appliance: World Gazetteer is a places locator that allows you to geocode various types of places around the world. The World Gazetteer locator is composed solely of open-source content, primarily from GeoNames. The GeoNames database contains more than 25 million geographical names and consists of more than 12 million unique features with approximately 4.8 million populated places and 16 million alternate names. The gazetteer references a dataset including countries, states and provinces, administrative areas (for example, counties), cities, landmarks, water bodies, and more.
The World Gazetteer provides a content solution that works with ArcGIS Enterprise. It is included with ArcGIS Data Appliance 2026 (downloaded from My Esri or shipped separately on a USB flash drive on request) with World Standard, World Advanced, North America Standard, and North America Advanced product options. It can also be licensed as a stand-alone option.
Note:
This feature is not included with the World Basic product option.
The World Gazetteer help includes the following topics:
- World Gazetteer content
- What's new
- World Gazetteer service description
- System requirements
- Publish the World Gazetteer
- Use the World Gazetteer
- Reference information including terms of use and support