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Hi,

Among all the useful information in allCountries file I only need those places which are habitable i.e. states, cities, villages etc. Therefore, I only kept those lines which has the feature code "P" and removed all other lines categorised with H, A, S etc.

While compiling my application I searched the file for 'London, GB' and it was there but surprisingly there is no location for 'Munich' in Gemany' and 'Zurich' in Germany'. Can anyone help me regarding that.

Do Munich and Zurich have the feature code other than "P"?
Is category "P" is the only code which include (States, cities, towns and villages) or there are other feature codes that I need to keep.
Tanx

both Zurich (you probably mean the city in Switzerland not Germany) and Munich have the featureclass P

http://www.geonames.org/2657896/zuerich.html
http://www.geonames.org/2867714/muenchen.html

Marc

It looks like you only searched for feature code 'PPL'. Country capitals have 'PPLC'.
To do this right you need feature class 'P' for all places and feature class 'A' for states and countries (and even feature code 'CONT' for the continents.

Thanks. You point was so useful to me.

We're kinda looking for the same thing, I think. (see my thread)

Did you make any good progress?