World Location Hierarchical Database (Instant Download)

Instantly download a hierarchical geographic database with over 41,000 cities, towns, and important places in the world.  This valuable data set includes the latitude and longitude coordinates for each place along with hierarchical information about it's location.  For example, each record includes a "Hierarchy" field that shows how each location is contained with a country's state, province, or other region.

Example of "Hierarchy" data field:

United States > California > Aliso Viejo
United States > California > Alondra Park
United States > California > Alpine
United States > California > Altadena
United States > California > Anaheim
United States > California > Antioch

The field layout for this database includes:

• Unique ID (unique identifier, can be used as primary key)
• Place (name of place)
• Parent (direct parent place name. i.e. California is parent of Los Angeles)
• Country (Country where place is located)
• Latitude (Geographic latitude coordinate)
• Longitude (Geographic longitude coordinate)
  

Download a sample file here.