Geonames Services

Installed Services

  • Place Hierarchy: Children (children)
    Find the children of a given geonameId.
  • Country Code (reverse geocoding) (countrycode)
    Find Country Code from latitude and longitude
  • Country Info (Bounding Box, Capital, Area in square km, Population) (countryinfo)
    Find countries for which postal code geocoding is available.
  • Country Subdivision (reverse geocoding) (countrysubdivision)
    Find Country Code from latitude and longitude
  • Place Hierarchy: Hierarchy (hierarchy)
    Find all Geonames higher up in the hierarchy of a place name.
  • Find nearby Place Name (reverse geocoding) (nearbyplace)
    Find nearby place name (reverse geocoding)
  • Find nearby Postal Codes (reverse geocoding) (nearbypostalcodes)
    Find nearby Postal Codes (reverse geocoding)
  • Find nearby Wikipedia Entries (reverse geocoding) (nearbywikipedia)
    Find nearby Wikipedia Entries (reverse geocoding)
  • Place Hierarchy: Neighbours (neighbours)
    Returns the neighbours for a given geonameId.
  • Postal Code Country Info (postalcodecountryinfo)
    Find countries for which postal code geocoding is available.
  • Postal Code Search (postalcodesearch)
    Postalcode search provides placenames/postalcodes for locations.
  • GeoNames Fulltext Search (search)
    Search provides names and information for geographical locations, it is probably the most comprehensive search available from GeoNames and has numereous possible parameter combinations. Note that this service allows some parameters to be arrays: country, featureclass and featurecode.
  • Place Hierarchy: Siblings (siblings)
    Returns the siblings for a given geonameId.
  • Timezone (timezone)
    Find the timezone for a given lat/lng with gmt offset (1. January) and dst offset (1. July)
  • Wikipedia Articles from Bounding Box (wikipediabbox)
    Search Wikipedia entries within the Bounding Box
  • Wikipedia Fulltext Search (wikipediasearch)
    Search Wikipedia entries in Fulltext
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