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GeoNames Monthly Diff Report December 2023

December 11, 2023
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GeoNames Monthly Diff Report (December 2023)

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 December 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.

* In this month’s update there are a larger than usual number of changes, including:

  • change of the country_name from Turkey to Türkiye
  • a number of Vietnamese locations updated to include non-ASCII characters (for example, Tinh Lam GJong is now Lâm Đồng Province)
  • a large number of locations in Brazil and India have updated geoname_ids