gazetteer
noun /ˌɡæzəˈtɪə(r)/
/ˌɡæzəˈtɪr/
- a list of place names published as a book, at the end of a book or as an online resourceWord Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘journalist’): via French from Italian gazzettiere, from gazzetta (see gazette). The current sense comes from a late 17th-cent. gazetteer called The Gazetteer's: or, Newsman's Interpreter: Being a Geographical Index.