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Geocoding API

The Geocoding API enables you to convert any city from any country to latitude and longitude coordinates. For reverse-geocoding, check out our Reverse Geocoding API.

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/v1/geocoding GET

https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/geocoding

Get current city coordinates by city and country name.

Parameters

At least one of the following parameters must be set:

  • city  required

    City name.

  • state  optional

    US state (for United States cities only).

  • country  optional

    Country name, 2-letter ISO country code, or 3-letter ISO country code.

  • zipcode  optional

    5-digit zipcode (for United States cities only).

Headers

  • X-Api-Key  required

    API Key associated with your account.

Response

A JSON array of objects, each containing the following fields, or an error if the request is unsuccessful.

  • name

    The name of the city.

  • latitude

    Latitude coordinate of the city.

  • longitude

    Longitude coordinate of the city.

  • country

    2-letter ISO 3166 alpha-2 country code.

Sample Request Live Demo!

city
state
country
zipcode

Try this API endpoint with all available parameters in our API playground

https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/geocoding?city=London&country=GB

Headers

X-Api-KeyLog in or sign up to get your API Key

Sample Response

JSON

Code Examples

1 2 curl -X GET "https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/geocoding?city=London&country=GB" \ -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

If your programming language is not listed in the Code Example above, you can still make API calls by using a HTTP request library written in your programming language and following the above documentation.