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Other gazetteers
** Many volumes are also available to read online on the[[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. Some of the volumes are only catalogued by volume number (in [http://www.list-of.org.uk/list-of-roman-numerals.htm Roman numerals]), but see [[Gazetteer titles|separate list]]
*''Brief Gazetteer of Most Important and Useful Place Names in Waziristan District''. 1935 is available to download as a pdf from [[Online books#Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset|Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]], located under Books, Indian Subcontinent, 1935
 
===Afghanistan===
*Refer ''Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the Northwest'' by Edward Thornton (1844) under [[Gazetteers#Regional|India, Regional]]
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d00099264u?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Central Asia Part II: A contribution towards the better knowledge of the topography, ethnology, resources, & history of Afghanistan complied (for political and military reference)''] by C.M. MacGregor. 1871 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Probably this title: [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/278643 ''Central Asia Part-i Vol-ii''] Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*Refer ''Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series'' [[Gazetteers#Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series|above]]
===Burma===
:[http://ebook.lib.hku.hk/CADAL/B31411344/ ''Burma Gazetteer: Lower Chindwin District, Upper Burma''] 1912 Ebook Hong Kong University Library. '''Note''': if the navigation tabs at the top of the webpage are not visible, decrease the size of the page.
*[https://archive.org/stream/inlandwatertrans00rang#page/45/mode/2up "Alphabetical List of Stations [of the Irrawaddy River<nowiki>]</nowiki>"], page 45 with [https://archive.org/stream/inlandwatertrans00rang#page/n82/mode/1up 1952 Map of the Irrawaddy River] facing page 43 ''Inland Water Transport Board (Irrawaddy Section)'', published July 1952 or later. Archive.org
 
===Afghanistan===
*Refer ''Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the Northwest'' by Edward Thornton (1844) under [[Gazetteers#Regional|India, Regional]]
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d00099264u?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Central Asia Part II: A contribution towards the better knowledge of the topography, ethnology, resources, & history of Afghanistan complied (for political and military reference)''] by C.M. MacGregor. 1871 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Probably this title: [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/278643 ''Central Asia Part-i Vol-ii''] Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*Refer ''Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series'' [[Gazetteers#Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series|above]]
===Ceylon===
*''A Gazetteer of the Central Province of Ceylon (excluding Walapane)'' by Archibald Campbell Lawrie Archive.org
:[http://www.archive.org/stream/agazetteercentr01lawrgoog#page/n9/mode/1up Volume 1, A-K] 1896, [http://www.archive.org/stream/agazetteercentr00lawrgoog#page/n9/mode/1up Volume 2, L-Z] 1898
 
===Mesopotamia (Iraq)===
Entries from ''A Handbook of Mesopotamia'' by Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division 1917
*"Volume II: Irak, the Lower Karun and Luristan" May 1917 [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023662424.0x0000b5 Volume II Gazetteer of Towns] page 371. Qatar Digital Library
*"Volume III: Central Mesopotamia with Southern Kurdistan and the Syrian Desert" January 1917. [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101073337998;view=1up;seq=702 Volume III Gazetteer of Towns], page 350. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*"Volume IV: Northern Mesopotamia and Central Kurdistan" April 1917. [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101073338004;view=1up;seq=842 Vol IV Gazetteer of Towns], page 418. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
=== Nepal===
**Three volumes of the ''Gazetteer Of The Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia'' by J G Lorimer, Indian Civil Service, are available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, being Parts I and II of Volume 1, Historical, published 1915 and the Geographical section of Volume II, Geographical and Statistical Gazetteer, published 1908.
***Part I Contents computer pages 12-137. Text commences cp 138. Part II Contents computer pages 10-133. Text commences cp 134. Appendix "Published books and articles" cp 1210. Volume II Geographical and Statistical Gazetteer. There is no Index. Introduction pages i-iii are missing. The text is cp 8-2047
**[http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn2552250 Volume I, Part III] of a reprint edition is available on the National Library of Australia Digital Collections-Maps [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2552250 Catalogue entry]. It contains two maps (including the map of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia) and genealogical trees.
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