aborasheed/world-locations-db

World Locations SQLite Database

This dataset contains a comprehensive, ready-to-use SQLite database (world_locations.db) of all geographical locations in the world, built using the GeoNames dataset.

Features

• Contains over 13 million locations (Countries, Cities, Villages, Points of Interest).
• Includes over 15 million alternate names, fully supporting Arabic and English location names.
• Pre-configured with SQLite FTS5 (Full-Text Search) for extremely fast location lookups.
• Ready to be downloaded and integrated into any Python application, Web App, or API.

How to use in Python

You can download and use it directly using the huggingface_hub library:

from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
import sqlite3

# Download the database
db_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id="aborasheed/world-locations-db", filename="world_locations.db", repo_type="dataset")

# Connect to the database
conn = sqlite3.connect(db_path)
cursor = conn.cursor()

# Search for a location (e.g., 'الرياض')
cursor.execute('''
    SELECT p.name, p.country_code, p.population 
    FROM places_fts f
    JOIN places p ON f.geonameid = p.geonameid
    WHERE places_fts MATCH ?
    ORDER BY p.population DESC
    LIMIT 5
''', ('الرياض',))

print(cursor.fetchall())