There is a strong demographic association between Spanish place-names and the share of the Hispanic population in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, and Texas. After controlling for county xed e ects and a host of observable variables, two otherwise observably-similar and geographically-proximate communities that only di er by Spanish-name origin can be expected to contain a share of Hisp...

It has long been known that there is a certain link between geographic locality and its name. The paper attempts to the history, geography, culture of Scotland with names cities, homesteads, rivers, streams, mountains, hills, other localities are either man-made creations or natural phenomena. Despite covering mere 80,000 km 2 , unique region. almost completely washed by sea, although most terr...

In this paper we evaluate the feasibility of estimating the previous distribution of a tree species, the beech, from the analysis of toponyms presently in use and referring to this species. Specialists from toponymy, agromomy and geometics have been involved. Toponyms are a precious source of information about past distribution: more than 6100 toponyms referring to beech have been detected. MOT...

The article considers the possibilities of using electronic maps Google Maps, Apple and Yandex as key sources for searching identifying geographical objects. In era digitalization, GIS technologies have become most important tool study toponyms. purpose work is to identify toponymy Almaty by a new approach, which popular practical 2GIS map. There are given main results toponomination characteri...

a place-name or a toponym is a word used to indicate, denote or identify a geographic locality. place-names are formed in the course of history of a region and are affected by various linguistic, social, political and cultural events. toponymy is the taxonomic study of place-names, based on etymological, historical and geographical information. this paper first defines toponym and topnymy and i...

The article presents data and some information (legends) on the history of Military Medical Academy, historical toponymy Vyborg side, buildings leading experts.