Worldwide location reference
Cities, towns and villages.
Across the world.
4,999,503 current populated-place records across 248 country and territory groups in GeoNames. Select a country to browse and search its places.
- Afghanistan
30,925 place records
- Aland Islands
336 place records
- Albania
4,158 place records
- Algeria
8,145 place records
- American Samoa
127 place records
- Andorra
62 place records
- Angola
17,104 place records
- Anguilla
45 place records
- Antarctica
32 place records
- Antigua and Barbuda
177 place records
- Argentina
14,582 place records
- Armenia
1,304 place records
- Aruba
34 place records
- Australia
14,763 place records
- Austria
20,066 place records
- Azerbaijan
5,022 place records
- Bahamas
349 place records
- Bahrain
98 place records
- Bangladesh
48,854 place records
- Barbados
554 place records
- Belarus
25,212 place records
- Belgium
12,482 place records
- Belize
520 place records
- Benin
3,737 place records
- Bermuda
29 place records
- Bhutan
253 place records
- Bolivia
25,625 place records
- Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba
112 place records
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
21,390 place records
- Botswana
1,783 place records
- Brazil
66,844 place records
- British Indian Ocean Territory
3 place records
- British Virgin Islands
104 place records
- Brunei
357 place records
- Bulgaria
6,059 place records
- Burkina Faso
10,355 place records
- Burundi
6,965 place records
- Cabo Verde
2,738 place records
- Cambodia
11,195 place records
- Cameroon
14,330 place records
- Canada
19,708 place records
- Cayman Islands
78 place records
- Central African Republic
5,694 place records
- Chad
12,213 place records
- Chile
2,916 place records
- China
897,101 place records
- Christmas Island
3 place records
- Cocos Islands
2 place records
- Colombia
33,950 place records
- Comoros
387 place records
- Cook Islands
51 place records
- Costa Rica
4,523 place records
- Croatia
11,365 place records
- Cuba
15,747 place records
- Curacao
68 place records
- Cyprus
765 place records
- Czechia
16,424 place records
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
37,133 place records
- Denmark
7,110 place records
- Djibouti
66 place records
- Dominica
119 place records
- Dominican Republic
7,851 place records
- Ecuador
10,631 place records
- Egypt
11,646 place records
- El Salvador
3,497 place records
- Equatorial Guinea
2,048 place records
- Eritrea
1,364 place records
- Estonia
6,922 place records
- Eswatini
702 place records
- Ethiopia
11,104 place records
- Falkland Islands
57 place records
- Faroe Islands
180 place records
- Fiji
2,217 place records
- Finland
24,531 place records
- France
80,292 place records
- French Guiana
501 place records
- French Polynesia
398 place records
- French Southern Territories
3 place records
- Gabon
3,926 place records
- Gambia
2,004 place records
- Georgia
5,336 place records
- Germany
77,399 place records
- Ghana
15,838 place records
- Gibraltar
2 place records
- Greece
14,335 place records
- Greenland
204 place records
- Grenada
294 place records
- Guadeloupe
1,521 place records
- Guam
26 place records
- Guatemala
16,262 place records
- Guernsey
262 place records
- Guinea
6,811 place records
- Guinea-Bissau
3,881 place records
- Guyana
773 place records
- Haiti
10,860 place records
- Honduras
12,183 place records
- Hong Kong
1,335 place records
- Hungary
10,049 place records
- Iceland
116 place records
- India
547,264 place records
- Indonesia
254,033 place records
- Iran
73,269 place records
- Iraq
21,346 place records
- Ireland
11,996 place records
- Isle of Man
43 place records
- Israel
1,253 place records
- Italy
61,880 place records
- Ivory Coast
12,052 place records
- Jamaica
3,200 place records
- Japan
45,052 place records
- Jersey
85 place records
- Jordan
1,319 place records
- Kazakhstan
13,412 place records
- Kenya
6,673 place records
- Kiribati
180 place records
- Kosovo
2,565 place records
- Kuwait
79 place records
- Kyrgyzstan
2,492 place records
- Laos
13,292 place records
- Latvia
7,635 place records
- Lebanon
3,309 place records
- Lesotho
393 place records
- Liberia
6,287 place records
- Libya
821 place records
- Liechtenstein
67 place records
- Lithuania
20,555 place records
- Luxembourg
641 place records
- Macao
9 place records
- Madagascar
24,112 place records
- Malawi
7,957 place records
- Malaysia
21,430 place records
- Maldives
119 place records
- Mali
15,761 place records
- Malta
191 place records
- Marshall Islands
111 place records
- Martinique
1,092 place records
- Mauritania
7,635 place records
- Mauritius
512 place records
- Mayotte
136 place records
- Mexico
264,812 place records
- Micronesia
457 place records
- Moldova
1,797 place records
- Monaco
1 place records
- Mongolia
1,531 place records
- Montenegro
4,000 place records
- Montserrat
60 place records
- Morocco
46,043 place records
- Mozambique
22,625 place records
- Myanmar
53,637 place records
- Namibia
2,867 place records
- Nauru
15 place records
- Nepal
87,896 place records
- New Caledonia
693 place records
- New Zealand
2,525 place records
- Nicaragua
2,356 place records
- Niger
13,055 place records
- Nigeria
61,183 place records
- Niue
46 place records
- Norfolk Island
4 place records
- North Korea
34,883 place records
- North Macedonia
2,529 place records
- Northern Mariana Islands
40 place records
- Norway
13,191 place records
- Oman
5,432 place records
- Pakistan
145,809 place records
- Palau
77 place records
- Palestinian Territory
1,030 place records
- Panama
11,931 place records
- Papua New Guinea
11,475 place records
- Paraguay
4,634 place records
- Peru
46,772 place records
- Philippines
43,459 place records
- Pitcairn
1 place records
- Poland
45,426 place records
- Portugal
16,567 place records
- Puerto Rico
2,471 place records
- Qatar
180 place records
- Republic of the Congo
5,778 place records
- Reunion
711 place records
- Romania
15,428 place records
- Russia
189,185 place records
- Rwanda
10,246 place records
- Saint Barthelemy
28 place records
- Saint Helena
20 place records
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
129 place records
- Saint Lucia
302 place records
- Saint Martin
62 place records
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
13 place records
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
156 place records
- Samoa
407 place records
- San Marino
24 place records
- Sao Tome and Principe
556 place records
- Saudi Arabia
4,552 place records
- Senegal
11,600 place records
- Serbia
9,489 place records
- Seychelles
46 place records
- Sierra Leone
14,350 place records
- Singapore
163 place records
- Sint Maarten
59 place records
- Slovakia
4,985 place records
- Slovenia
6,570 place records
- Solomon Islands
2,527 place records
- Somalia
4,506 place records
- South Africa
12,614 place records
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
3 place records
- South Korea
61,790 place records
- South Sudan
5,308 place records
- Spain
29,272 place records
- Sri Lanka
17,744 place records
- Sudan
7,823 place records
- Suriname
460 place records
- Svalbard and Jan Mayen
11 place records
- Sweden
27,978 place records
- Switzerland
11,429 place records
- Syria
10,820 place records
- Taiwan
15,677 place records
- Tajikistan
2,660 place records
- Tanzania
7,729 place records
- Thailand
87,187 place records
- The Netherlands
6,996 place records
- Timor Leste
3,325 place records
- Togo
4,195 place records
- Tokelau
3 place records
- Tonga
149 place records
- Trinidad and Tobago
456 place records
- Tunisia
1,813 place records
- Turkey
52,801 place records
- Turkmenistan
1,434 place records
- Turks and Caicos Islands
38 place records
- Tuvalu
19 place records
- U.S. Virgin Islands
222 place records
- Uganda
11,415 place records
- Ukraine
32,475 place records
- United Arab Emirates
418 place records
- United Kingdom
34,299 place records
- United States
168,831 place records
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
7 place records
- Uruguay
1,028 place records
- Uzbekistan
7,935 place records
- Vanuatu
1,905 place records
- Vatican
1 place records
- Venezuela
23,329 place records
- Vietnam
41,256 place records
- Wallis and Futuna
99 place records
- Western Sahara
49 place records
- Yemen
78,400 place records
- Zambia
13,016 place records
- Zimbabwe
1,810 place records
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Source: GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 · Snapshot September 17, 2026. Scope, provenance and downloads. Population figures have varying source dates. A record modification date is not a population reference date.