thought this could be useful for some people
http://www.geonames.org/
GeoNames is a set of free and downloadable geographical databases of all countries which includes over 8 million place names.
The data comes in tab-delimited + utf-8 formatted text files and can be downloaded as a whole or per country.
Besides the locations of the places/cities/countries, databases include supplementary data like capitals, statistics, timezones and more.
GeoNames data can also be reached from their free webservice which can return results in XML and JSON.
The data comes in tab-delimited + utf-8 formatted text files and can be downloaded as a whole or per country.
Besides the locations of the places/cities/countries, databases include supplementary data like capitals, statistics, timezones and more.
GeoNames data can also be reached from their free webservice which can return results in XML and JSON.
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