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 ruin and archaeological site data pre-loaded and ready to download.
About This Tool
Download ruin and archaeological site locations as point data for any country. Coverage is particularly rich in historically dense regions — Italy, Greece, UK (England, Scotland, Wales), France, Spain, India, Japan, Mexico (pre-Columbian sites), Peru, China, and Vietnam. Useful for heritage tourism planning, historical GIS, archaeology education, and cultural mapping projects.
Point Data — What That Means
Each ruin or site is a single point at its location — a latitude/longitude coordinate with name and region. These are not excavation boundaries, heritage zone polygons, or 3D model data.
Data Source & License
Data from GeoNames — licensed under CC-BY 4.0. Free for any use including commercial, with attribution to GeoNames.