Name: world-cities
Owner: Data Packaged Core Datasets
Description: List of major cities of the world as a datapackage
Created: 2016-02-13 02:12:24.0
Updated: 2017-12-10 16:02:17.0
Pushed: 2017-11-13 07:25:07.0
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List of major cities in the world
The data is extracted from geonames, a very exhaustive list of worldwide toponyms.
This datapackage only list cities above 15,000 inhabitants. Each city is associated with its
country and subcountry to reduce the number of ambiguities. Subcountry can be the name of a state (eg in
United Kingdom or the United States of America) or the major administrative section (eg ''region'' in France'').
See admin1
field on geonames website for further info about subcountry.
Notice that :
N/A
.geonameid
is provided.You can run the script yourself to update the data and publish them to github : see scripts README
All data is licensed under the Creative Common Attribution License as is the original data from geonames. This means you have to credit geonames when using the data. And while no credit is formally required a link back or credit to Lexman and the Open Knowledge Foundation is much appreciated.
All source code is licensed under the MIT licence.