To provide a distributed terminal management and search system which does not require a router or plural integrated network managing and supporting devices and software therefor by allocating addresses with position information based on the latitude/longitude of install place of terminal equipment as a key.

This system is provided with terminal equipment 111 and 121 distributedly installed on a network, position information detectors 112 and 122 built in the terminal equipment 111 and 121 or installed close for detecting the latitude/longitude of install place of the terminal equipment 111 and 121 and an information station 101 connected to the network for managing the terminal equipment 111 and 121. Then, the information station 101 determines and applies the network addresses of each of terminal equipment 111 and 121 on the basis of the position information of install place of the terminal equipment 111 and 121.