Populated Places - (Geonames)

The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eight million placenames that are available for download free of charge.

http://www.geonames.org/


Populated Places - (Geonames) includes three separate layers:

- cities with a population > 1'000 inhabitants (ca 146'000 records)

- cities with a population > 5'000 inhabitants (ca 48'000 records)

- cities with a population > 15'000 inhabitants and capitals (ca 24'000 records)


The Data is provided "as is" without warranty or any representation of accuracy, timeliness or completeness.

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Date (Publication)
2016-04-27T00:00:00
Identifier
http://datacore.grid.unep.ch/geonetwork/srv/metadata/4a64faed-8674-4bb2-baad-fb6446ee3a6d
Presentation form
Digital map
Status
Completed
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

GeoNames geographical database

Marc Wick

info@geonames.org

Originator
Maintenance and update frequency
Continual
Theme

  • GRID core datasets

  • global

  • city

  • cities

  • settlement

  • urban

  • agglomeration
Place

  • World
Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License
Other constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License


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Other constraints

The Data is provided "as is" without warranty or any representation of accuracy, timeliness or completeness.
Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
10000000
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Society
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Supplemental Information

The Data is provided "as is" without warranty or any representation of accuracy, timeliness or completeness.
Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

OGC:WMS

 		http://datacore.unepgrid.ch/geoserver/wms

grid_data_core:city15k_gis

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		http://129.194.205.10:80/geoserver/wfs?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=GetFeature&SRSNAME=EPSG:4326&outputFormat=SHAPE-ZIP&version=1.0.0&TYPENAME=grid_data_core:city15k_gis

Cities with more than 15'000 inhabitants

OGC:WMS

 		http://datacore.unepgrid.ch/geoserver/wms

grid_data_core:city5k_gis

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		http://129.194.205.10:80/geoserver/wfs?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=GetFeature&SRSNAME=EPSG:4326&outputFormat=SHAPE-ZIP&version=1.0.0&TYPENAME=grid_data_core:city5k_gis

Cities with more than 5'000 inhabitants

OGC:WMS

 		http://datacore.unepgrid.ch/geoserver/wms

grid_data_core:city1k_gis

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		http://129.194.205.10:80/geoserver/wfs?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=GetFeature&SRSNAME=EPSG:4326&outputFormat=SHAPE-ZIP&version=1.0.0&TYPENAME=grid_data_core:city1k_gis

Cities with more than 1'000 inhabitants

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/

all data (txt format) from Geonames
Hierarchy level
Dataset
File identifier
4a64faed-8674-4bb2-baad-fb6446ee3a6d XML
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2017-05-02T08:30:52
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version

1.0
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

UNEP/GRID-Geneva

Andrea de Bono

debono@unepgrid.ch

Point of contact
 
 

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Keywords

GRID core datasets agglomeration cities city global settlement urban

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