Country, State, Province WebService?

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Smallinov picture Smallinov · Sep 23, 2008 · Viewed 20.5k times · Source

Are there any good webservices out there that provide good lookup information for Countries and States/Provinces?

If so what ones do you use?

Answer

jt55401 picture jt55401 · Sep 26, 2008

http://www.geonames.org/

That's the best one I've found. They let you download and host the web service yourself, which is also nice.

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