fergusmeiklejohn / cities.json

:cityscape: Cities of the world in Json, based on GeoNames Gazetteer

🏙️ Cities of the World

These cities comes from GeoNames Gazetteer.

See https://www.geonames.org/datasources/ for the list of data sources.

Here is the description of the original dataset:

all cities with a population > 1000 or seats of adm div (ca 150.000) [...]

Install

npm install --save cities.json

Usage

Either on node or the browser (with webpack) it get as simple as this:

ES5

const cities = require('cities.json');

ES6

import cities from 'cities.json';

Since webpack >= v2.0.0, importing of JSON files will work by default.

Description

This Json version is an array of object of the following shape:

• ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
• name
• Latitude
• Longitude

[
  {
    "country": "FR",
    "name": "Lyon",
    "lat": "45.75",
    "lng": "4.583333"
  },
  ...
]

These cities can pretty easily be matched with countries by code using the following dataset: https://github.com/annexare/Countries

Licence

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.