Free CSV/SQL database with World Countries & Cities
To be able to present all information in the Lensora.com Image Gallery and other location based articles there is a big database of cities and countries powering it all. And this database we at Lensora.com want to make public for you to download and use, together with images of all country flags as well.
These are examples of how you can publish and list counties and cities.
List values from tableCountries |
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Photography in Australia |
Photography in Canada |
Photography in United Kingdom |
Photography in United States of America |
List values from tableCities |
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Photography in Yonkers (New York) |
Photography in Staten Island (New York) |
Photography in Rockford (Illinois) |
Photography in Raleigh (North Carolina) |
I am delighted to offer you access to this comprehensive database of ours, consisting of a detailed list of all countries globally and approximately 48,000 major cities around the world, organized into two distinct tables. These datasets are available for download in both .sql and .csv extension - allowing you to integrate this repository into your own application.
tableCountries
This table contains all countries in the world. The structure of the table is as follows:
column | type | example |
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id | integer | 101 |
country | varchar | United States of America |
country_iso | varchar | US |
tableCities
This table contains all major cities in the world (around 48,000 listings) together with the latitude and longitude coordinates as well as the population, both for the city itself but also for the greater metropolitan area. The structure of the table is as follows:
column | type | example |
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id | integer | 25912 |
city | varchar | Houston |
cityfirstletter | varchar | H |
lat | decimal | 29.763284 |
lng | decimal | -95.363272 |
country | varchar | United States of America |
country_iso | varchar | US |
state | varchar | Texas |
comment | varchar | city |
populationarea | integer | 4459000 |
populationcity | integer | 3647574 |
PNG flags to combine with the tables
We also provide a free set of flags in a PNG format to combine with all the countries. The flags comes in two different sizes and are named after the country_iso value in the tables above. Here are examples of how you can display an image of the Australian flag (country_iso = 'au').
These are examples of how you can publish and list counties and cities.
100 pixels wide Path: images/flags/png100px/au.png | |
250 pixels wide Path: images/flags/png250px/au.png |