How can I get city name from a latitude and longitude point?

Question

Is there a way to get a city name from a latitude and longitude point using the google maps api for javascript?

If so could I please see an example?

Answer 1

In case if you don't want to use google geocoding API than you can refer to few other Free APIs for the development purpose. for example i used [mapquest] API in order to get the location name.

you can fetch location name easily by implementing this following function

 const fetchLocationName = async (lat,lng) => {
    await fetch(
      'https://www.mapquestapi.com/geocoding/v1/reverse?key=API-Key&location='+lat+'%2C'+lng+'&outFormat=json&thumbMaps=false',
    )
      .then((response) => response.json())
      .then((responseJson) => {
        console.log(
          'ADDRESS GEOCODE is BACK!! => ' + JSON.stringify(responseJson),
        );
      });
  };