diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/geoip/base.py b/django/contrib/gis/geoip/base.py
index 39a651f727..a1d476c0a5 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/geoip/base.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/geoip/base.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import os
 import re
+import warnings
 from ctypes import c_char_p
 
 from django.contrib.gis.geoip.libgeoip import GEOIP_SETTINGS
@@ -11,6 +12,7 @@ from django.contrib.gis.geoip.prototypes import (
 )
 from django.core.validators import ipv4_re
 from django.utils import six
+from django.utils.deprecation import RemovedInDjango20Warning
 from django.utils.encoding import force_bytes
 
 # Regular expressions for recognizing the GeoIP free database editions.
@@ -81,6 +83,13 @@ class GeoIP(object):
         * city: The name of the GeoIP city data file.  Defaults to
             'GeoLiteCity.dat'; overrides the GEOIP_CITY settings attribute.
         """
+
+        warnings.warn(
+            "django.contrib.gis.geoip is deprecated in favor of "
+            "django.contrib.gis.geoip2 and the MaxMind GeoLite2 database "
+            "format.", RemovedInDjango20Warning, 2
+        )
+
         # Checking the given cache option.
         if cache in self.cache_options:
             self._cache = cache
diff --git a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
index 4a14acd734..cc1495efee 100644
--- a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ details on these changes.
 
 * The ``GeoManager`` and ``GeoQuerySet`` classes will be removed.
 
+* The ``django.contrib.gis.geoip`` module will be removed.
+
 * The ``supports_recursion`` check for template loaders will be removed from:
 
   * ``django.template.engine.Engine.find_template()``
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoip.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoip.txt
index 0fb7fde99c..efe33ebef3 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoip.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoip.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ Geolocation with GeoIP
 .. module:: django.contrib.gis.geoip
    :synopsis: High-level Python interface for MaxMind's GeoIP C library.
 
+.. deprecated:: 1.9
+
+    This module is deprecated in favor of :doc:`django.contrib.gis.geoip2
+    </ref/contrib/gis/geoip2>`, which supports IPv6 and the GeoLite2 database
+    format.
+
 The :class:`GeoIP` object is a ctypes wrapper for the
 `MaxMind GeoIP C API`__. [#]_
 
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.9.txt b/docs/releases/1.9.txt
index 6d482038af..82ff5a08bc 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.9.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.9.txt
@@ -1049,6 +1049,13 @@ As of Django 1.8, ``current_app`` is set on the ``request`` object. For
 consistency, these views will require the caller to set ``current_app`` on the
 ``request`` instead of passing it in a separate argument.
 
+``django.contrib.gis.geoip``
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The :mod:`django.contrib.gis.geoip2` module supersedes
+``django.contrib.gis.geoip``. The new module provides a similar API except that
+it doesn't provide the legacy GeoIP-Python API compatibility methods.
+
 Miscellaneous
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/tests/gis_tests/test_geoip.py b/tests/gis_tests/test_geoip.py
index c77c7cc529..6afd441216 100644
--- a/tests/gis_tests/test_geoip.py
+++ b/tests/gis_tests/test_geoip.py
@@ -3,12 +3,15 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 import os
 import unittest
+import warnings
 from unittest import skipUnless
 
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.contrib.gis.geoip import HAS_GEOIP
 from django.contrib.gis.geos import HAS_GEOS, GEOSGeometry
+from django.test import ignore_warnings
 from django.utils import six
+from django.utils.deprecation import RemovedInDjango20Warning
 
 if HAS_GEOIP:
     from django.contrib.gis.geoip import GeoIP, GeoIPException
@@ -22,6 +25,7 @@ if HAS_GEOIP:
 
 @skipUnless(HAS_GEOIP and getattr(settings, "GEOIP_PATH", None),
     "GeoIP is required along with the GEOIP_PATH setting.")
+@ignore_warnings(category=RemovedInDjango20Warning)
 class GeoIPTest(unittest.TestCase):
     addr = '128.249.1.1'
     fqdn = 'tmc.edu'
@@ -115,3 +119,12 @@ class GeoIPTest(unittest.TestCase):
         d = g.country('200.26.205.1')
         # Some databases have only unaccented countries
         self.assertIn(d['country_name'], ('Curaçao', 'Curacao'))
+
+    def test_deprecation_warning(self):
+        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as warns:
+            warnings.simplefilter('always')
+            GeoIP()
+
+        self.assertEqual(len(warns), 1)
+        msg = str(warns[0].message)
+        self.assertIn('django.contrib.gis.geoip is deprecated', msg)