maps (version 2.0-30)

world.cities: Database of world cities

Description

This database is primarily of world cities of population greater than 100,000. Also included are capital cities of any population size, and some local additions.

Arguments

format

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

NOTE

Some of the country names and city names are out of date.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

See Also

map.cities