geonames

is a Data Source.

GeoNames is a geographical database covering all countries and providing over eleven million place names through downloads and web services.

Domains

environment, general

License

CC BY 4.0

Homepage

geonames

Repository

Unknown

Infores ID

Unknown

FAIRsharing ID

Unknown

Product Summary

Contacts

Products

From this Resource
ID Name URL Category Format Description
geonames.feature-codes GeoNames Feature Codes codes.html DocumentationProduct http GeoNames feature class and feature co...
geonames.export GeoNames Download and Webservice Overview export DocumentationProduct http GeoNames download and webservice over...
geonames.api GeoNames Web Services ws-overview.html ProgrammingInterface http GeoNames web service overview coverin...
From other Resources
ID Name URL Category Format Relation Description
obo-db-ingest.geonames.tsv geonames Nodes TSV geonames.tsv (537.0 KB) Product tsv had primary source geonames Nodes TSV
orkg.dump ORKG RDF Dump rdf-export-orkg.nt (613.1 MB) GraphProduct ntriples had primary source RDF dump of the Open Research Knowled...
ekg.rdf eKG RDF epidemicIE-DONs.rdf (3.7 MB) GraphProduct rdfxml was informed by RDF/XML serialization of the eKG epid...
ekg.ttl eKG TTL epidemicIE-DONs.ttl (3.7 MB) GraphProduct ttl was informed by Turtle serialization of the eKG epide...
ekg.sparql eKG SPARQL endpoint sparql ProgrammingInterface http was informed by Public SPARQL endpoint for querying eKG
ekg.browser eKG Faceted Browser fct GraphicalInterface http was informed by Virtuoso faceted browser for explorin...
obo-db-ingest.geonames.feature.tsv geonames.feature Nodes TSV geonames.feature.tsv (20.5 KB) Product tsv had primary source geonames.feature Nodes TSV

Details

GeoNames

GeoNames maintains a global gazetteer with downloadable datasets, postal code data, and web services for geographic lookup and normalization.

The project distributes daily country and all-countries extracts, separate postal-code files, and a broad suite of place, hierarchy, nearby-feature, and country information services, all under a CC BY license with public rate limits for the free API tier.

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Created: February 26, 2026 | Last modified: May 30, 2026