Is there any API that lists states and cities?

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Is there any API that lists states and cities?

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I've been looking for some json API that lists the states of a certain country, or cities of a certain state, I've looked for this functionality through various Google Maps APIs but I did not find anything that was exactly for that.

I do not want to use a DB with a list of states and cities because I believe it lacks flexibility and is quite heavy.

Note: I need to create a combobox of countries, states and cities, but I can use a list of countries directly from the database without any problem, but if there is an API that makes this list available, p>

Is there a good option?

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asked by anonymous 25.07.2015 / 17:18

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You can use the geonames.org service.

This example page shows the calls to the service:

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The specific function you want to use is Children , which returns collections of child entities of a given GeoNameID - countries of a continent, states of a country, cities of a state and so on.

The above example makes the following calls:

Gets a list of continents

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After selecting South America ( GeoNameID 6255150), you get the list of countries

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After selecting Brazil (GeoNameID 3469034), you get the list of states

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The end result is a list similar to the example below:

{
"totalResultsCount":27,
"geonames":[
    {
    "geonameId":3665474,
    "toponymName":"Acre"
    },
    {
    "geonameId":3408096,
    "toponymName":"Alagoas"
    },
    {
    "geonameId":3407762,
    "toponymName":"Amapá"
    },
    [...]