GeoDataSource World Cities Database (Premium Edition) July 2009

GeoDataSource Cities Database Premium Edition offers you 2.9+ million entries with city names in original language and English, feature type classifications, country names in FIPS and ISO, regions, sub-regions, state or First-Order Administrative Division and county or Second-Order Administrative Division.

Complete database in text format suitable for applications requiring a complete list of city names. It is a subset of the GeoDataSource Cities Database Gold Edition.

Major Features:

1. Updated Monthly
2. Multiple Subscriptions Packages Available
3. Discounted Subscriptions Pricing Available
4. Most Accurate and Up-to-Date Source of Data
5. Comprehensive List of Cities and Related Items (2,530,169 Entries)
6. Support Worldwide 260+ Countries, Territories and Sovereign Lands
7. Instant Download Upon Subscription
8. Free Customer Support
9. Many Happy Customers
10. Populated place
    • A city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
11. Seat of a first-order administrative division
    • Seat of a first-order administrative division.
12. Capital of a political entity
    • Capital of a political entity.
13. Populated locality
    • An area similar to a locality but with a small group of dwellings or other buildings.
14. Abandoned populated place
    • Abandoned populated place.
15. Religious populated place
    • A populated place whose population is largely engaged in religious occupations.
16. Populated places
    • Cities, towns, villages, or other agglomerations of buildings where people live and work.
17. Destroyed populated place
    • A village, town or city destroyed by a natural disaster, or by war.
18. Section of populated place
    • Section of populated place.
19. Second-order administrative division
    • Seat of a second-order administrative division.
20. Third-order administrative division
    • Seat of a third-order administrative division.

Requirements:

• Internet connection capable of downloading 50 MB compressed ZIP data file
• 50 MB free disk space for compressed file
• 300 MB free disk space for uncompressed data files
• WinZIP or other similar PKZip archive extraction utility
• SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL or other database software application capable of importing 2,530,169 records from a standard tab-delimited ASCII text file and sufficient disk space to import the database.