GeoNames monthly diff report March 2024

March 18, 2024

This release note is more than two years old and may no longer reflect current behavior. View the latest release notes.

GeoNames monthly diff report (March 2024)

GeoIP and GeoLite 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 March 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 a large number of cities in Israel have improved place names.

In 2020, Norway merged a number of their subdivisions, but this proved unpopular and they have now unmerged these subdivisions. We have used the ISO subdivision codes for these subdivisions from before the 2020 change. The ISO subdivision codes we will be using for these subdivisions are reflected in this diff report.