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Yahoo! GeoPlanet

Coverage

Yahoo! GeoPlanet provides information for about six million named places globally. Coverage varies from country to country, but includes several hundred thousand unique administrative areas with half a million variant names; several thousand historical administrative areas; over two million unique settlements and suburbs, and millions of unique postal codes covering about 150 countries, plus a significant number of Points of Interest, Colloquial Regions, Airports, Area Codes, Time Zones, and Islands.

[Note] Note

Some Natural Features and Inland Water Geographies are included, but these feature classes are not fully supported in this release.