world's countries and cities!

[feshangi]

Where can I get a database of all the world's countries and cities? any resources would be helpful.

Thanks,

Mike

 

[svanels]

Google came up with a very obvious link:

http://www.cities.com

Steven van Els
SAvanEls@cq-link.sr

 

[Dimandja]

This is a very good bet.

 

[r937]

cities.com seems somehow to have overlooked Canada

the only Toronto it knows about is in Australia

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[feshangi]

Thank you all.

I purchased it from MeridianWorldData.com. They have the best database.

 

[paulrw1]

I know the CIA used to publish data for all countries of the world. This info was publicily available. Take a look at

http://www.cia.gov.

Don't know if they have any db's you can down load tho. Might be worth looking at.

 

[feshangi]

Thanks paulrw1 for the info. I checked that site out before I purchsed MeridianWorldData.com software. cia.gov database is very confusing and plus it doesn't have time zones information. I am very happy with MeridianWorldData.com product since they have documented every field and it's very easy to use; this database even have more rows than cia.gov database. (much completer)

 

[paulrw1]

Well... It IS a gov db after all.. I guess we can't have an efficient source of info.. LOL

 

[feshangi]

i'm am with you.

happy new year,

mike

 

[Dimandja]

>cia.gov database is very confusing and plus it doesn't have time zones information.

If the location of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade has been updated, then you have the latest stuff.

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[feshangi]

actually the one i purchased has the correct information.