Implementations for computer-based systems, apparatus and methods for map search based on user query parsing. For example, a computer-implemented map search method is provided to include parsing an input entry from a user for map search into a location part indicating location information in 5 the input search entry and a query part indicating a search target associated with the location part in the input entry; and conducting a map search to obtain a geographic area or location based on the location part and to search for information on one or more entities that are associated with the query part and that are located at, within, or near the obtained geographic area or location.