25 October 2024
25,227 New African Settlements! The WHG has added settlements from Senegal, Mauritania, and Guinea, data compiled by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

25 October 2024
New dataset contribution! Browse places from Father Antonio Monserrate's Travels in Mughal India from 1579-1582

27 September 2024
WHG Director Featured on Podcast World History Center Director Dr. Ruth Mostern was featured on an episode of "Educating to Be Human" Podcast where she discussed the World Historical Gazetteer.

12 July 2024
New dataset contribution: Viabundus Browse over 10,000 places related to travel routes in Northern Europe from 1350-1650

1 July 2024
Pleiades blog post about WHG! A guest post by Ruth Mostern and Karl Grossner in the Pleiades gazetteer "Projects and Partners" series.

15 May 2024
Reconciliation index now 13m records! We added 10 million records from GeoNames to the existing 3.6 million from Wikidata!

10 February 2024
Volunteering to help with reconciliation New in v3, dataset creators can request help with the task of reviewing reconciliation results.

10 February 2024
New in Version 3! A summary listing of the new features and enhancements.