World Gazetteer represents the locations and proper names for map features around the world. The gazetteer includes attribute and annotation name information from various layers of the Digital Chart of the World. This layer is part of the 2014 ESRI Data and Maps collection for ArcGIS 10.2. World Gazetteer provides a base map layer that may be used to find locations by their proper name anywhere around the world. The categories include airports, coastal features, drainage features, land features, ocean features, islands, political features, and populated places. ESRI. (2014). World Gazetteer, 1993-2012. ESRI. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/fd150cy7374