Get global city, region, country, and island data. Filter places by name prefix, country, location, time-zone, and even minimum population (currently over 600,000 towns, cities, counties, and islands). Display results in multiple languages. Sort by name, country code, elevation, and population - or any combination of these. Get distances between places. Get all country regions. Get all places in a given region. Data is periodically refreshed from GeoNames and WikiData. Backed by cloud-based load-balanced infrastructure for resiliency and performance! If you’d like to host the service internally, contact us for details through the dev portal site. Data licensed under Creative Commons, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0. For more information check out our website at http://geodb-cities-api.wirefreethought.com

Welcome to GeoDB Cities GraphQL

This service provides basic info about cities, counties, regions, and countries throughout the world. It allows you to constrain and sort the data in various ways, retrieving just what’s relevant to your use-case.

Try This

Get details on New York City (Q60) and its nearby suburbs. (Just paste the below query verbatim into the RapidAPI POST graphQL endpoint.

{
  populatedPlace(id:"Q60") {
    name
    population
    latitude
    longitude
    nearbyPopulatedPlaces(radius:10, distanceUnit:MI, types:["CITY"], first:10) {
      totalCount
      edges {
        node {
          id
          name
          population
          distance
        }
      }
      pageInfo {
        startCursor
        endCursor
        hasNextPage
      }
    }
  }
}

Features

• Filter cities by name prefix, countries, location, time-zone, and minimum population (currently over 273,000 cities and counties).
• Find cities near a city or location.
• Display results in multiple languages (currently English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish).
• Sort results by name, country code, elevation, and population - or any combination of these.
• Get city details, including GPS location, time-zone, population, elevation above sea level, and the current time (factors in daylight savings).
• Get all country regions, states, and provinces.
• Get all cities in a given region.
• Get all countries supporting a currency.
• WikiData Integration
• Cloud-based load-balanced infrastructure.
• Data periodically refreshed from GeoNames and WikiData.

Possible Use-Cases

• Get user’s current city based on their GPS location.
• Autocomplete a city, region, or country name as the user types.
• Autopopulate a list of regions based on the user’s selected country.
• Autopopulate a list of cities based on the user’s selected country region.
• Display the flag of the selected country.
• Integrate with WikiData to implement exotic use-cases such as getting a city’s tourist attractions.

Docs

• Dev Portal
• GraphQL Schema
• Query Cookbook
• Issue Tracking