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🇦🇺 Australia 8 administrative divisions

8 first-level administrative divisions (states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country) and 16,872 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.

The country

ISO 3166-1
AU · AUS · 036
Capital
Canberra
Continent
Oceania
Currency
AUD, Australian dollar
Calling code
+61
Internet domain
.au
Divisions
8
Cities and towns
16,872

Divisions

The 8 divisions of Australia

8 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.

Division ISO 3166-2 Cities and towns Population
Australian Capital Territory AU-ACT 147 481,700
New South Wales AU-NSW 4,792 8,545,100
Northern Territory AU-NT 1,028 262,200
Queensland AU-QLD 3,357 5,618,800
South Australia AU-SA 1,782 1,891,700
Tasmania AU-TAS 795 539,590
Victoria AU-VIC 3,031 7,074,468
Western Australia AU-WA 1,933 3,008,700

A further 7 places could not be matched to a division and are listed separately in the API as "unassigned": true.

Get it

Both files, in one request each

# every division of Australia
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/AU.json

# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/AU/<id>.json

No key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.