Geographical coordinates of all cities on Earth

In search of a database of cities in the world for your weather site , I came across an interesting resource . It simply lined up a list of all settlements, ordered by country and region.



Information provided for each location:

- geographical coordinates

- height above sea level

- Timezone

- Is daylight saving time used

- approximate number of inhabitants (usually very low)



It also displays a small map, meteorological information and a list of nearby airfields.

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Now I sit and think how to get this database. I did not find any contact information on the site, the link “Credits” leads nowhere. It’s probably not possible to just steal the whole database via http: only in Russia there are more than 200,000 points. This is a few days of continuous parsing.



Update:

The geonames.org website has found a downloadable database with detailed information on localities around the world. Only in Russia there are 249,516 objects.

Thank you so much, sapl !