Download Place Name Data
Search and download location data by country and feature type. Export as CSV, GeoJSON, Shapefile, KML, and more. Powered by GeoNames.
All results are point locations (lat/lng coordinates). These are not polygon or line geometries — for boundary polygons try our administrative boundaries tool, and for river or coastline lines try Natural Earth.
Download by Country
Select a country below to get fort data pre-loaded and ready to download.
About This Tool
Download military fortification and historic fort locations as point data for any country. Coverage is strongest in countries with extensive colonial or military defence histories — the United Kingdom, United States, India, Canada, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, South Africa, Japan, and Brazil. Useful for military history research, defence heritage mapping, historical GIS projects, and heritage tourism planning.
Point Data — What That Means
Each fort is a single point at the site location — a latitude/longitude coordinate with name and region. These are not building footprints, defensive perimeter polygons, or fortification plan data.
Data Source & License
Data from GeoNames — licensed under CC-BY 4.0. Free for any use including commercial, with attribution to GeoNames.