cityloc

Look up world city coordinates and country codes

Python (3.7+) module to look up world city locations and country codes. Uses data from the Basic World Cities Database provided by Simplemaps.com. The data is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

Installation

pip install cityloc

Examples

Look up city

>>> from cityloc import city_lookup
>>> r = city_lookup('London', country='GB')
>>> pprint.pprint(r)
[{'capital': 1,
  'country': 'GB',
  'id': 6911,
  'lat_wgs84': 51.5,
  'long_wgs84': -0.1167,
  'name': 'London',
  'name_ascii': 'London',
  'population': 8567000,
  'region': ''}]

Look up capital city for country

>>> from cityloc import capital_for_cc
>>> r = capital_for_cc("FR")
>>> pprint.pprint(r)
{'capital': 1,
 'country': 'FR',
 'id': 6687,
 'lat_wgs84': 48.8667,
 'long_wgs84': 2.3333,
 'name': 'Paris',
 'name_ascii': 'Paris',
 'population': 9904000,
 'region': 'Île-de-France'}

Version History

• 0.1.3: Modernized code (03/08/2026)
• 0.1.1: Added capital_for_cc (17/09/2019)
• 0.1.0: Initial release (03/01/2019)

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