Contains GeoNames data, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
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Sources: https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/cities15000.zip, admin1CodesASCII.txt, countryInfo.txt
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Adaptation: selected city/name/alternate-name, administrative region, country, coordinate, population and time-zone fields; population sorted; converted to compact JavaScript arrays.
Coverage: 34163 cities over 15,000 inhabitants and administrative capitals; not every settlement. Coordinates are city reference points, not exact birth locations. Data supplied without warranty.