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U.S. Cities Database
The SQL file has 29.880 registered cities. All cities are located in the United States.
The SQL file contains two tables:
-
US_STATES: ID, STATE_CODE and STATE_NAME.
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US_CITIES: ID, ID_STATE, CITY, COUNTY, LATITUDE and LONGITUDE.
The US_CITIES table has all (or almost all) cities from the United States.
Compatibility
The us_cities.sql file is compatible with MySQL. See sqlite for the sqlite3 compatible version.
Samples
US_STATES
ID | STATE_CODE | STATE_NAME |
---|---|---|
1 | AL | Alabama |
2 | AK | Alaska |
3 | AZ | Arizona |
US_CITIES
ID | ID_STATE | CITY | COUNTY | LATITUDE | LONGITUDE |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | Adak | Aleutians West | 55.999722 | -161.20777 |
2 | 2 | Akiachak | Bethel | 60.891854 | -161.39233 |
3 | 2 | Akiak | Bethel | 60.890632 | -161.19932 |
4 | 2 | Akutan | Aleutians East | 54.143012 | -165.78536 |
5 | 2 | Alakanuk | Wade Hampton | 62.746967 | -164.60228 |
Export Data
You can use the following SQL command to export the data to a CSV file.
SELECT
US_CITIES.ID, US_STATES.STATE_CODE, US_STATES.STATE_NAME, US_CITIES.CITY, US_CITIES.COUNTY, US_CITIES.LATITUDE, US_CITIES.LONGITUDE
FROM
US_STATES
INNER JOIN
US_CITIES
ON
US_STATES.ID = US_CITIES.ID_STATE
ORDER BY
US_CITIES.ID ASC
INTO OUTFILE
'C:/US_Cities.csv'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY
';'
ENCLOSED BY
''
LINES TERMINATED BY
'\n';
For convenience, the generated CSV file is here.
License
This project was created under the MIT license.
If you find some inconsistent data, such as a duplicated city, please open an issue explaining what is happening or directly fix the problem and send a Pull Request.
References
This SQL dump was created based on the SQL dump that can be found at the following link: http://www.farinspace.com/us-cities-and-state-sql-dump/
Some changes that have been made:
- The zip column was deleted.
- Some duplicated cities were deleted.
- All data were reorganized (rows and columns).
- It was included the Puerto Rico state name that was missing in the original SQL.
- It was included the US_STATES table.