# cityloc
### Look up world city coordinates and country codes
Python (2 and 3) module to look up world city locations and country codes.
Uses data from the Basic World Cities Database provided by Simplemaps.com. The data is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
## Installation
```
$ pip install cityloc
```
## Examples
### Look up city
```python
>>> from cityloc import city_lookup
>>> r = city_lookup('London', country='GB')
>>> pprint.pprint(r)
[{'capital': 1,
'country': 'GB',
'id': 6911,
'lat_wgs84': 51.5,
'long_wgs84': -0.1167,
'name': 'London',
'name_ascii': 'London',
'population': 8567000,
'region': ''}]
```
### Look up capital city for country
```python
>>> from cityloc import capital_for_cc
>>> r = capital_for_cc("FR")
>>> pprint.pprint(r)
{'capital': 1,
'country': 'FR',
'id': 6687,
'lat_wgs84': 48.8667,
'long_wgs84': 2.3333,
'name': 'Paris',
'name_ascii': 'Paris',
'population': 9904000,
'region': 'Île-de-France'}
```
## Version History
* 0.1.1: Added capital_for_cc (17/09/2019)
* 0.1.0: Initial release (03/01/2019)
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