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Posted by Fat Sam on May 5, 2005, 2:47 pm
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Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> I'm working on a a site where I need a list of countries and major
> cities in those countries.
>
> Basically, when a user signs up, they choose their country from a select
> box. For countries without zip/postal codes, I want them to be able to
> choose the nearest major city from another select box.
>
> The main purpose is to provide an approximate geographical location I
> can use in other database tables.
>
> Anyone have an idea where such a thing would be available?
>
> TIA.
>
>
Jerry, The CIA's website has tons of publically available information on
just about every country around the world....Not sure how easy iut is to
download the lot and disseminate it though....They might have a neat
little downloadable data set.....
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