Database of Place Names

Synopsis

Toponyms "place names" listed below are a snapshot of our toponymy database that contains over [2,500,000] entries covers 200 countries around the world, the first group is assigned to Arabic place names.

Presented here is the typical format i.e. place names are provided parsed to the fields shown, further processing is also possible upon your request, please contact us for details.

This database is further sorted to many points of interest "POI" e.g. airports, resorts, populated places, and many other types of land use accompanied by their geographic coordinates making it suitable for many online business.

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Information

Please download larger Database of Place Names sample in TXT format, or other related samples from dbsamples.htm.

An easy to view XML version is available here Database of Place Names XML version.

Reference: DBTOPO

Entries: 2,000,000+

Last updated: 4/2/2023

Fields key

Entry: place name
Roman: phonemic transcription of the place name
Arabic: Arabicization of the place name
Vocalized: vocalized Arabic pronunciation
Variant: variant pronunciation
Type: place name designation
Language: name language code
Transcript: standard transcription
Script: name language script code here.
Country: country of origin, please refer to country codes here.
Latitude: latitude in DMS
Longitude: longitude in DMS

Sample

Sample (Global)