GeoNames cities1000 and admin1CodesASCII snapshot downloaded 2026-10-16.
Source: https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/
Data: https://www.geonames.org/
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Subset: standalone populated places only (PPL, PPLC, PPLA, PPLA2-5, PPLG); city sections/districts (PPLX), historic, abandoned and grouped places excluded. In the 27 countries of the current Vow destination directory. Cities1000 generally includes places with >1000 inhabitants and administrative seats. Not every village is included; choose a listed nearby town if needed. Fields: GeoNames ID, city, country, search aliases, first-level region, population. No user location data is sent to GeoNames.
Supplement: Netherlands added from GeoNames cities1000/admin1CodesASCII downloaded 2026-10-30. Existing city IDs and other country records preserved.
Small configured destinations added from GeoNames country dumps on 2026-10-30: Hallstatt, Le Mont-Saint-Michel, Manarola.