Of Countries and their Cities [closed]

Answer 1

I was comparing worldcitiesdatabae.info with www.worldcitiesdatabase.com and it appears the latter one to be more resourceful. However, maxmind has a free database so then why buy a cities database. Just get the free one and there is lot of help available on internet about maxmind db. If you put in extra efforts then you can save those few bucks :)

Answer 2

There are quite a few available.

The following has database for 2,401,039 cities

http://www.geodatasource.com/world-cities-database/free

Answer 3

This service returns Countries (name,code) and cities for any country as REST, SErvice. You can also download database and sample REST service

http://tecorange.com/content/world-countries-and-cities-restjson-service-12-months-subscription

Answer 4

Check this out:

Cities of the world database donated by MaxMind.com

The company MaxMind.com1 has agreed to release their cities of the world database under the GPL. The database contains locations by country, city, latitude and longitude. There are over 3,047,000 records in the database. For those of you who have tried the location.module with the zipcodes database from CivicSpace, you will recognize how cool it is and how well this fits with that project and therefore Drupal.

Here's another free one that might help you get started.

Creating and maintaining such a database is quite a bit of work - so anyone who's done it is likely keeping it to themselves, or offering it for a fee.

Answer 5

http://cldr.unicode.org/ - common standard multi-language database, includes country list and other localizable data.

Answer 6

United Nations list of locations in mdb, csv or txt:

Welcome: http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/welcome.html

Choose the downloads link from the above link or just click here.