JewishGen Gazetteer – Data Contents

The JewishGen Gazetteer contains the modern names of all localities in the 55 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 2.7 million localities — nearly 1.2 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.

The database was updated for each country's place names as of the date shown below.