Gazetteer of places mentioned in wikidata.org
https://s3.amazonaws.com/firstdraftgis/wikidata-gazetteer.tsv.zip
| name | description | example |
|---|---|---|
| wikidata_id | unique identifier (UID) used in Wikidata | Q142 |
| primary_name | name, usually in English | Armenia |
| enwiki_title | title of wikipedia article | Georgia (country) |
| alternative_names | aliases, acronymns and other names | Грузи,জর্জিয়া,格鲁吉亚,Georgien,འཇོར་ཇི་ཡ,... |
| country | name of country | Germany |
| country_code | country code | FR |
| wikidata_classes | place is an instance of these classes | member state of the European Union; island nation ... |
| elevation | in raw units from wikidata | 52.0 |
| geonames_id | id that corresponds to GeoNames record | 614540 |
| latitude | latitude in decimal degrees | 42.016669444444 |
| longitude | longitude in decimal degrees | 43.733330555556 |
| population | population | 3729500.0 |
| osm_id | id in OpenStreetMap | 51477 |
| astronomical_body | name of planet, moon, or other body | Mars |
This code and gazetteer data is provided under a Public Domain License. You can read the specific license here: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. If you have any concerns, please don't hesitate to contact us and we'll address them promptly.
You can also download a zipped pickled set in Python that holds all the titles of the articles about the places in the English Wikipedia. You can download that here.
If you have any questions or comments about the data, license, or anything else, please don't hesitate to contact me at daniel.j.dufour@gmail.com.