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{{Short description|Geographical dictionary or directory used in conjunction with a map or atlas}} [[File:Ordnance Gazetteer for Scotland - Title Page.jpg|thumb|Ordnance Gazetteer for Scotland - Title Page]] [[File:Gazetteers-2.jpg|thumb|Ordnance Gazetteer for Scotland - First Page]] A '''gazetteer''' is a geographical [[dictionary]]<ref name="Macmillan">{{cite web |title=Gazetteer |url=https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/gazetteer |website=Macmillan Dictionary |publisher=Macmillan |access-date=14 April 2023}}</ref><ref name="Webster's and Roget's">{{cite book |title=Webster's dictionary and Roget's thesaurus |date=2006 |publisher=Paradise Press Inc. |page=68 |url=https://archive.org/details/webstersdictiona0000unse_u2z8/page/n69/mode/2up |access-date=14 April 2023}}</ref><ref name="Webster's New Dictionary">{{cite book |title=Webster's New Dictionary |date=1997 |publisher=Promotional Sales Books |isbn=1577233603 |page=126 |url=https://archive.org/details/webstersnewdicti00slpr/page/126/mode/2up |access-date=14 April 2023}}</ref> or [[wikt:directory|directory]] used in conjunction with a map or [[atlas]].<ref name="aurousseau 61">Aurousseau, 61.</ref><ref name="OED">{{cite book |title=The Oxford English Dictionary |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=Gazetteer, n3 |url=https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/77237 |access-date=25 December 2021}}</ref> It typically contains information concerning the geographical makeup, [[social statistics]] and physical features of a country, region, or continent. Content of a gazetteer can include a subject's location, dimensions of peaks and waterways, [[statistical population|population]], [[gross domestic product]] and literacy rate. This information is generally divided into topics with entries listed in alphabetical order. [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greek]] gazetteers are known to have existed since the [[Hellenistic civilization|Hellenistic]] era. The first known Chinese gazetteer was released by the first century, and with the age of print media in [[History of typography in East Asia|China by the ninth century]], the [[Gentry (China)|Chinese gentry]] became invested in producing gazetteers for their local areas as a source of information as well as local pride. The geographer [[Stephanus of Byzantium]] wrote a geographical dictionary (which currently has missing parts) in the sixth century which influenced later European compilers. Modern gazetteers can be found in reference sections of most [[libraries]] as well as on the internet.
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