I need the names of countries, country regions and cities of the world.
Where do I get that kind of information?
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Sign up to join this communityI need the names of countries, country regions and cities of the world.
Where do I get that kind of information?
Try the data provided by Natural Earth at http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
Multiple datasets are provided including countries, states, populated places, urban areas etc
You can also download a database of over 8 million place names from http://www.geonames.org/ but that may be overkill for what you're looking for.
Natural Earth Version 2 [Out this week 18th August 2012]
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Give it a try to the files hosted here:
http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php
The dataset is available in shapefile format:
TM_WORLD_BORDERS-0.3.zip (3,380 kB)
TM_WORLD_BORDERS_SIMPL-0.3.zip (226 kB)
If you just want the names, try geonames.org
http://www.geonames.org/countries/
There is a countries, regions and cities database database dump hosted on Github. Might be useful for MySQL users
Have a look at naturalearth, that should cover your need
Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software
As a commmiter of https://pypi.org/project/geograpy3/ I'd recommend using our database or at least the approach behind it. See https://github.com/somnathrakshit/geograpy3/wiki
The data is derived from different sources - mostly Wikidata.