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World Cities and Populated Places

Mapped capitals, cities and selected towns with coordinates, alternate names and cross-dataset identifiers.

Sources and dates

  • Natural Earth: ca96624a56bd078437bca8184e78163e5039ad19. Retrieved (UTC).

Contents

The download contains the populated data, a field dictionary, source metadata, reuse terms, a change log and file digests. It contains no scripts, libraries, executables or conversion tools.

Coverage

All features in the Natural Earth populated-places layer, not every settlement on Earth. Source selection favors capitals and important cities and includes selected smaller towns. Point coordinates are WGS84 longitude, latitude. Historical source population values are not refreshed to the retrieval date.

Read the data

JSON tables are arrays of records. GeoJSON files are FeatureCollections, with data fields under each feature’s properties. data-dictionary.json defines the fields, units, nulls and observed types. metadata.json supplies primary keys and source hashes. Preserve identifiers as text and distinguish missing values from zero.

GeoJSON coordinates are WGS84 in longitude, latitude order. Feature IDs are also present in properties.id.

Example record

This is an actual record from the data. For map layers, the example shows properties; the downloaded GeoJSON also contains the complete geometry.

{
  "id": "1159112629",
  "name": "Colonia del Sacramento",
  "ascii_name": "Colonia del Sacramento",
  "alternative_name": null,
  "names": {
    "en": "Colonia del Sacramento",
    "de": "Colonia del Sacramento",
    "es": "Colonia del Sacramento",
    "fr": "Colonia del Sacramento",
    "pt": "Colónia do Sacramento",
    "ru": "Колония-дель-Сакраменто",
    "zh": "科洛尼亞·德爾·沙加緬度",
    "ar": "كولونيا ديل ساكرامنتو",
    "bn": "কোলোনিয়া দেল সাক্রামেন্তো",
    "el": "Κολόνια ντελ Σακραμέντο",
    "hi": "कोलोनिया डेल सैक्रमेंटो",
    "hu": "Colonia del Sacramento",
    "id": "Colonia del Sacramento",
    "it": "Colonia del Sacramento",
    "ja": "コロニア・デル・サクラメント",
    "ko": "콜로니아델사크라멘토",
    "nl": "Colonia del Sacramento",
    "pl": "Colonia del Sacramento",
    "sv": "Colonia del Sacramento",
    "tr": "Colonia del Sacramento",
    "vi": "Colonia del Sacramento",
    "fa": "کولونیا دل ساکرامنتو",
    "he": "קולוניה דל סקרמנטו",
    "uk": "Колонія-дель-Сакраменто",
    "ur": "کولونیا دیل ساکرامینتو",
    "zht": "科洛尼亞·德爾·沙加緬度"
  },
  "country_name": "Uruguay",
  "country_code": "UY",
  "admin1_name": "Colonia",
  "feature_type": "Admin-1 capital",
  "national_capital_flag": 0,
  "population_max": 21714,
  "population_min": 21714,
  "time_zone": "America/Montevideo",
  "wikidata_id": "Q56064",
  "geonames_id": 3443013
}