diff --git a/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-parser-nlp-module/pom.xml b/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-parser-nlp-module/pom.xml
index ece9707f6ec..4fc9abe0541 100644
--- a/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-parser-nlp-module/pom.xml
+++ b/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-parser-nlp-module/pom.xml
@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@
             <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
-            <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
+            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
diff --git a/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-parser-nlp-module/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/parser/geo/topic/gazetteer/GeoGazetteerClient.java b/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-parser-nlp-module/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/parser/geo/topic/gazetteer/GeoGazetteerClient.java
index e1965c937f8..b6a98a7eddc 100644
--- a/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-parser-nlp-module/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/parser/geo/topic/gazetteer/GeoGazetteerClient.java
+++ b/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-parser-nlp-module/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/parser/geo/topic/gazetteer/GeoGazetteerClient.java
@@ -16,13 +16,14 @@
  */
 package org.apache.tika.parser.geo.topic.gazetteer;
 
-import java.lang.reflect.Type;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 
-import com.google.gson.Gson;
-import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationFeature;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
@@ -42,6 +43,10 @@ public class GeoGazetteerClient {
 
     private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(GeoGazetteerClient.class);
 
+    // gson ignored fields Location doesn't have
+    private static final ObjectMapper MAPPER =
+            new ObjectMapper().disable(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES);
+
     private String url;
 
     /**
@@ -74,11 +79,7 @@ public Map<String, List<Location>> getLocations(List<String> locations) {
             HttpResponse resp = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
             String respJson = IOUtils.toString(resp.getEntity().getContent(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
 
-            @SuppressWarnings("serial") Type typeDef =
-                    new TypeToken<Map<String, List<Location>>>() {
-                    }.getType();
-
-            return new Gson().fromJson(respJson, typeDef);
+            return parseLocations(respJson);
 
         } catch (Exception e) {
             LOG.error(e.getMessage(), e);
@@ -87,6 +88,11 @@ public Map<String, List<Location>> getLocations(List<String> locations) {
         return null;
     }
 
+    static Map<String, List<Location>> parseLocations(String json) throws IOException {
+        return MAPPER.readValue(json, new TypeReference<Map<String, List<Location>>>() {
+        });
+    }
+
     /**
      * Ping lucene-geo-gazetteer API
      *
diff --git a/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-parser-nlp-module/src/test/java/org/apache/tika/parser/geo/topic/gazetteer/GeoGazetteerClientTest.java b/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-parser-nlp-module/src/test/java/org/apache/tika/parser/geo/topic/gazetteer/GeoGazetteerClientTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8d763d2bcb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tika-parsers/tika-parsers-ml/tika-parser-nlp-module/src/test/java/org/apache/tika/parser/geo/topic/gazetteer/GeoGazetteerClientTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.tika.parser.geo.topic.gazetteer;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNull;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+public class GeoGazetteerClientTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void testParseLocations() throws Exception {
+        // lucene-geo-gazetteer sends coordinates as numbers, and fields Location doesn't have
+        String json = "{\"Pasadena\":[{\"name\":\"Pasadena\",\"countryCode\":\"US\",\"admin1Code\":\"CA\","
+                + "\"admin2Code\":\"037\",\"latitude\":34.14778,\"longitude\":-118.14452,\"population\":141029}],"
+                + "\"Nowhere\":[]}";
+        Map<String, List<Location>> locations = GeoGazetteerClient.parseLocations(json);
+        assertEquals(2, locations.size());
+        assertTrue(locations.get("Nowhere").isEmpty());
+        Location loc = locations.get("Pasadena").get(0);
+        assertEquals("Pasadena", loc.getName());
+        assertEquals("US", loc.getCountryCode());
+        assertEquals("CA", loc.getAdmin1Code());
+        assertEquals("037", loc.getAdmin2Code());
+        assertEquals("34.14778", loc.getLatitude());
+        assertEquals("-118.14452", loc.getLongitude());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testNullLocations() throws Exception {
+        assertNull(GeoGazetteerClient.parseLocations("null"));
+    }
+}