world.cities


This database is primarily of world cities of population greater than
about 40,000.  Also included are capital cities of any population size, and
many smaller towns.


datasets

Display of maps.  Projection code and larger maps are in
separate packages ('mapproj' and 'mapdata').

Alex Deckmyn

maps

Draw Geographical Maps

world.cities function

A list with 6 components, namely "name", "country.etc", "pop", "lat",
"long", and "capital", containing the city name, the country name,
approximate population (as at January 2006), latitude, longitude and
capital status indication (0 for non-capital, 1 for capital, 2 for China
Municipalities, and 3 for China Provincial capitals)

Format

Some of the country names and city names may be out of date.  Please send
any corrections to the package maintainer.

world.cities: Database of world cities

Description

Usage

Arguments

Format

NOTE

See Also