Where can I get a list of Countries, States and Cities? [closed]

Answer 1

geonames.org has an api and a data dump of worldwide geographical places.

Answer 2

geonames is nice. an export tool based on geonames:

https://github.com/yosoyadri/GeoNames-XML-Builder

https://github.com/yosoyadri/GeoNames-XML-Builder/blob/master/continents-countries-statesprovinces.xml

there's also the excellent pycountry module:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycountry

Answer 3

Geonames has a lot of data on places (including towns and cities) but it seems to be contributed and perhaps not complete.

Perhaps also try SQL Dumpster, I've used this website a lot for these kinds of databases, cities, provinces, etc. Unfortunately it's not free but only appears to be a one-time fee.

Answer 4

Check this out! It was built no longer ago in 2014.

Get a list of country/state/city in a hierarchy using geonames webservice

Answer 5

This may be a sideways answer, but if you download Virtuemart (A Joomla component), it has a countries table and all the related states all set up for you included in the installation SQL. They're called jos_virtuemart_countries and jos_virtuemart_states. It also includes the 2 and 3 character country codes. I'd attach it to my answer, but don't see a way of doing it.

Answer 6

The UN maintains a list of countries and "states" / regions for economic trade. That DB is available here: http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/welcome.html