Cities of the world with 50,000+ people
Every city and town in the GeoNames gazetteer with a population of at least 50,000, with country, first-level region, population, elevation, time zone and coordinates. One row per place.
Columns
Stable keys — use them in the API, SQL and code
| Key | Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| geonameid | GeoNames ID | integer | GeoNames identifier; the place's page is geonames.org/{id}. |
| name | City | string | Name in the local or most common form (UTF-8). |
| ascii_name | ASCII name | string | Name in plain ASCII characters. |
| place_type | Place type | string | GeoNames feature class of the place, e.g. Capital, First-level admin seat, Populated place. |
| country | Country | country | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code. |
| country_iso2 | Country code | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code as recorded by GeoNames. |
| country_name | Country name | string | — |
| admin1 | Region | string | First-level administrative division (state, province, region) the place is in. |
| admin1_code | Region code | string | GeoNames admin1 code (mostly FIPS 10-4; ISO for some countries). |
| population | Population | integer | Population as recorded by GeoNames. |
| elevation_m | Elevation | integer · m | Recorded elevation above sea level in metres, where GeoNames has one. |
| dem_m | Terrain elevation | integer · m | Average terrain elevation of the surrounding grid cell from a digital elevation model (SRTM3 or GTOPO30), in metres. |
| timezone | Time zone | string | IANA time zone identifier, e.g. Europe/Ljubljana. |
| lat | Latitude | number · ° | — |
| lon | Longitude | number · ° | — |
| modified | Last modified | date | Date the GeoNames record was last edited. |
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