Canadian Geographical Names - CGN
Natural Resources Canada
- License
- Attribution
- Commercial
- Yes
- Format
- CSV, Shapefile
- Coverage
- Canada
- Projection
- EPSG:3978
- Last updated
- Added to findgis 29 Oct 2026 · Update frequency Weekly
Tags
Weekly extract of officially approved geographical names for Canada's landmass and water bodies, kept from 1897 to the present.
CartaTerra can export this layer as GeoPackage, Shapefile, GeoJSON, KML, CSV, or GPX.
Source and attribution
- Publisher
- Natural Resources Canada
- License
- Attribution
- Commercial use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- Yes
- Modification allowed
- Yes
- Redistribution allowed
- Yes
- Share-alike
- No
- Region
- CanadaCA
- Type
- Vector
- Time
- 1897-01-01 onward
- Service
- ArcGIShttps://maps-cartes.services.geo.ca/server_serveur/rest/services/NRCan/canadian_geographical_names_en/MapServer/0WMShttps://maps-cartes.services.geo.ca/server_serveur/services/NRCan/canadian_geographical_names_en/MapServer/WMSServer?layers=9&legend_format=image%2Fpng&feature_info_type=application%2Fgeojson&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities
- Extent
- -14141.7-52.683.1West, south, east, north. Approximate region extent.
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