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A collection of awesome world (countries, cities, codes, flags, languages, latitude/longitude, etc.) datasets
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# World



A collection of awesome world  (countries, cities, codes, latitude/longitude, flags, languages, etc.) datasets



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#### _Contributions welcome. Anything missing? Send in a pull request. Thanks._



Note: :package: stands for a Tabular Data Package ([What is?](http://data.okfn.org/doc/tabular-data-package)) and :octocat: stands for the GitHub page. 



## World Data Guides / Articles



_Where's the open world data?_



- [Free Geographic Information System (GIS) Data Guide](http://freegisdata.rtwilson.com) - massive dataset list (300+ sources) collected by Robin Wilson (University of Southampton)



## World Data (Countries, Cities, etc.)



### Open Street Map (OSM)



- [openstreetmap.org](http://www.openstreetmap.org) - the Free Wiki World Map

    - [Downloads](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Downloading_data)

    - [Nominatim - Search](https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org) - search OpenStreetMap w/ Nominatim service



### Natural Earth



- [naturalearthdata.com](http://www.naturalearthdata.com/) - free vector and raster map data at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales; includes first order admin (e.g. provinces, departments, states, etc.) and populated places (e.g. capitals, cities, towns) and more

    - [Downloads](http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads)



### GeoNames



- [geonames.org](http://geonames.org) - open geo (geographical) database covers all countries and contains over eight million placenames

    - [GeoTree](http://geotree.geonames.org) - browse the GeoNames continent/country/admin1/admin2/admin2/etc. hierachy

    - [Downloads](http://www.geonames.org/export)



- [GeoNames-MySQL-DataImport :octocat:](https://github.com/codigofuerte/GeoNames-MySQL-DataImport) - shell ccript to download and import geonames.org dumps into a mysql database



### Statoids



- [statoids.com](http://www.statoids.com) - Administrative Divisions of Countries ("Statoids")



### world.db / Open Mundi



- [openmundi/world.db :octocat:](https://github.com/openmundi/world.db) - public domain world database 'n' schema for use in any (programming) language (e.g. uses plain text datasets)

- [worlddb :octocat:](https://github.com/worlddb) - world.db Tools & Scripts



### Wikipedia / Wikidata



- Country Pages with Infobox



### More



- [hexorx/countries :octocat:](https://github.com/hexorx/countries) - world countries; includes data from ISO 3166 (countries and states/subdivisions ), ISO 4217 (currency), and E.164 (phone numbers).



- [mledoze/countries :octocat:](https://github.com/mledoze/countries) - world countries with iso codes, currencies and more in JSON, CSV and XML



- [django-cities :octocat:](https://github.com/coderholic/django-cities) - python script for importing countries, regions, cities etc. from geonames.org



- [django-countries :octocat:](https://github.com/SmileyChris/django-countries) - Django app providing country choices for use with forms, flag icons static files, and a country field for models



- [current-countries-of-earth :octocat:](https://github.com/ewheeler/current-countries-of-earth) - python script to fetch current ISO 3166 country info; output as JSON



- [worlddb](http://code.google.com/p/worlddb) -  open world database alpha; includes country, region & city names in many languages names and latitude and longitude numbers and country's iso 2-letter code.



- [elicher/geostuff :octocat:](https://github.com/elicher/geostuff) - word_data.json provides various data on all entities (souvereign countries and dependencies) contained in ISO 3166-1 plus all continents and sub_regions; collected by Eckhard Licher



- [Tinata :octocat:](https://github.com/tinata/tinata) - Tinata is not a travel API (Tinata); free, open access to information about countries



- [i18n_data gem :octocat:](https://github.com/grosser/i18n_data)  - country/language names and 2-letter-code pairs, in 85 languages, for country/language i18n in Ruby

- [carmen gem :octocat:](https://github.com/jim/carmen) - a repository of geographic regions for Ruby



- [Country List :octocat:](https://github.com/umpirsky/country-list) - list of all countries with names and ISO 3166-1 codes in all languages and data formats (JSON, YAML, XML, CSV, SQL etc.)

- [Country Data @ OpenBookPrices :octocat:](https://github.com/OpenBookPrices/country-data) - Country related data such as ISO codes, currencies etc



## Country Codes (Alpha2, Alpha3, Num, etc.)



- Debian ISO Codes Package

- [Statoids Country Codes Page](http://www.statoids.com/wab.html) - 249 countries; incl. alpha2, alpha3, num, ITU, GEC, IOC,	FIFA, DS, WMO, GAUL, MARC, and Dial  codes

- [Comprehensive country codes @ data.okfn :package:](http://data.okfn.org/data/core/country-codes) -  [:octocat:](https://github.com/datasets/country-codes) - tabular data package; incl. ISO 3166, ITU, ISO 4217 currency codes and many more 

- [world.db.codes](http://countrycodes.herokuapp.com) - [:octocat:](https://github.com/worlddb/world.db.codes)



- [iso_country_codes gem :octocat:](https://github.com/alexrabarts/iso_country_codes) - a library that provides ISO 3166-1 country codes/names and ISO 4217 currencies in Ruby



## Currencies



- [wiredmax/world-currencies :octocat:](https://github.com/wiredmax/world-currencies) - currency information in JSON

- [currencies gem :octocat:](https://github.com/hexorx/currencies) -  a library for working with currencies in Ruby; extracted from the countries gem and contains all the currency information in the ISO 4217 standard



## Languages



- [Language codes @ data.okfn :package:](http://data.okfn.org/data/core/language-codes) -  [:octocat:](https://github.com/datasets/language-codes) - ISO Language Codes (639-1 and 693-2)



## Country Locale Data (Formats for Dates, Numbers, Addresses, etc.)



- ICU (International Components for Unicode)

- CLDR  (Common Locale Data Repository) @ Unicode



- [CLDR Data :octocat:](https://github.com/import-io/cldr_data) - import.io demo using CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) data and a bit of visualisation



## Country Flags



- [Gallery of sovereign state flags @ Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_sovereign_state_flags)

- [Flags of the World @ Factbook](https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/flagsoftheworld.html)

- [Google i18n Region Flags :octocat:](https://github.com/googlei18n/region-flags) - Collection of flags for BCP 47 region codes in SVG / PNG



## Factbook



- [The World Factbook @ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)](https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)

- [Wikipedia: The World Factbook](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Factbook) - Commentary

- [openfactbook :octocat:](https://github.com/openfactbook) - The World Factbook in open data formats. Flags and maps included; managed by Eckhard Licher

- [openmundi/factbook.json :octocat:](https://github.com/openmundi/factbook.json) - Datasets (JSON)

- [openmundi/factbook :octocat:](https://github.com/openmundi/factbook.json) - Profile Pages in HTML; Cleaned-up for (Easier) Processing e.g. Turing into Structured Data (e.g. JSON)



- [worlddb/factbook :octocat:](https://github.com/worlddb/factbook) - Scripts



- [hijaz/factbook :octocat:](https://github.com/hijaz/factbook) - World Factbook scraped raw data

- [worldfactbook-dataset :octocat:](https://github.com/twigkit/worldfactbook-dataset)



## More



- [OpenAddresses](http://openaddresses.io) - [:octocat:](https://github.com/openaddresses) - free and open global address collection (public domain)

- [Global Administrative Areas Database (GADM)](http://www.gadm.org)



## Europe



### Central Europe



#### Austria / Österreich (at)



- [austria.db :octocat:](https://github.com/openmundi/austria.db)



### Portugal (pt)



- [Postal Codes @ Central de Dados :package: :octocat:](https://github.com/centraldedados/codigos_postais)



### Spain / España  (es)



- [spain_zip_codes gem :octocat:](https://github.com/luismiramirez/spain_zip_codes), [:gem:](https://rubygems.org/gems/spain_zip_codes) - get spanish provinces and locations with zip codes and reverse



## Catalogs, Indexes



- [Global Open Data Index @ Open Knowledge](http://index.okfn.org)

    - [Places](http://index.okfn.org/place) - Country Overview (Ranking)

    - [Datasets](http://index.okfn.org/dataset)



## Community (Questions & Answers, Announcements, etc.)



- [Open Data @ Reddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/opendata)

- [Open Data @ Stack Exchange](http://opendata.stackexchange.com)

- [Planet Open Data](http://planetopendata.herokuapp.com) - [:octocat:](https://github.com/planetopendata/planet) - Online News Reader



## Meta



**License**



The awesome list is dedicated to the public domain. Use it as you please with no restrictions whatsoever.



**Questions? Comments?**



Send them along to the [Open World Database (world.db) and Friends Forum/Mailing List](http://groups.google.com/group/openmundi). 

Thanks!