World Historical Gazetteer

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WHG is a platform for linking records about historical places, allowing people to make spatial connections across time and language. Project Director: @rmostern.bsky.social Technical Director: @docuracy.co.uk #DH #LOD #DigitalHumanities #GIS #GIStory

Global heatmap of the roughly 116,000 places extracted from A Gazetteer of the World (1856), plotted on a world basemap. Density is highest across Britain and Europe, South Asia, and the eastern United States; sparser across much of Africa, South America, and the interior of Asia, reflecting the 1856 compilers' Anglocentric reach.

Map showing locations visited by Olaudah Equiano between 1745 and 1797.

Globe visualisation of Indigenous Place Names in North America, a WHG Place Collection [https://doi.org/10.60681/whg-collection-172]