condwanaland / worldcities

City Location and Population Data for 40000 Global Cities

worldcities

worldcities contains a dataset of 40,000 cities and associated metadata such as coordinates, country, and population.

Installation

You can install the released version of worldcities from github with:

remotes::install_github("condwanaland/worldcities")

Example

To use worldcities first load it with library()

library(worldcities)

You can then access the dataset by just calling worldcities

wc <- worldcities
head(wc)
#>       city     lat      lng     country iso2 iso3  admin_name capital
#> 1    Tokyo 35.6897 139.6922       Japan   JP  JPN       Tokyo primary
#> 2  Jakarta -6.2146 106.8451   Indonesia   ID  IDN     Jakarta primary
#> 3    Delhi 28.6600  77.2300       India   IN  IND       Delhi   admin
#> 4   Mumbai 18.9667  72.8333       India   IN  IND Maharashtra   admin
#> 5   Manila 14.6000 120.9833 Philippines   PH  PHL      Manila primary
#> 6 Shanghai 31.1667 121.4667       China   CN  CHN    Shanghai   admin
#>   population         id
#> 1   37977000 1392685764
#> 2   34540000 1360771077
#> 3   29617000 1356872604
#> 4   23355000 1356226629
#> 5   23088000 1608618140
#> 6   22120000 1156073548

You can then use this in any further analyses

library(ggplot2)
library(rnaturalearth)
library(rnaturalearthdata)

# This grabs a map of the world from the `rnaturaldata` packages
world <- ne_countries(scale = "medium", returnclass = "sf")

ggplot(data = world) +
    geom_sf() +
    geom_point(data = worldcities, aes(x = lng, y = lat, size = population), 
        shape = 23, fill = "darkred", alpha = 0.1) +
    coord_sf()
#> Warning: Removed 738 rows containing missing values (geom_point).

There’s way too much data to get anything meaningful from this view, but it does give you an idea of the areas this dataset covers.

License

Data for this package comes from SimpleMaps (https://simplemaps.com/data). The World Cities data is released under a CCBY license which is preserved here. The original, raw data can be found here (https://simplemaps.com/data/world-cities).