GeoIP Release Notes

The metro_code data in our GeoIP products and services is a no-longer-maintained code. Because Google does not use or publish these codes any longer, the metro_code field has now been deprecated in our GeoIP products and services.

What should I do?

The field will not be removed from our databases and existing values will continue to be populated, so you can continue using it if you find it valuable.

GeoNames Monthly Diff Report (January 2025)

GeoIP2 and GeoLite2 databases incorporate GeoNames geographical data, which is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Monthly updates to GeoNames data are incorporated into our databases as we refresh them. Above you will find a CSV report of these changes as they apply to English place names for the month of January as they relate to the following fields:

• geoname_id
• country_name
• country_code
• city_name
• subdivision_1_iso_code
• subdivision_2_iso_code

Note that the values for the old_ and new_ columns for a given field only differ for the field defined in the diff_in column.