What is Geonames.org, you wonder? It’s a website [or an web-institution, if you like to phrase it that way] that provides – amongst other things – [pretty] useful information that maps geological data [country, region, city/town/village, etc.] to the GPS coordinates. The one database that I personally use corresponds to allCountries [download size is about 170MB ; requires about 800MB upon uncompressing it].

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