Data

Place facts from Wikidata API

Resolve a city/region/country name to structured geographic facts from Wikidata (keyless) — country, type, administrative parent, capital, population, area, elevation, coordinates, timezones, and head of government. Answers 'what is the population of X', 'what country is X in', 'where is X located', 'what is the capital of X'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data/kb-place

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache3600s public

datawikidataplacegeographycitycountrypopulationentity

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/data/kb-place

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "query": "New York City"
}

Example response

{
  "id": "Q60",
  "name": "New York City",
  "description": "most populous city in the United States",
  "country": "United States",
  "instanceOf": [
    "megacity"
  ],
  "population": 8804190,
  "coordinates": {
    "latitude": 40.7127,
    "longitude": -74.0059
  },
  "timezones": [
    "Eastern Time Zone"
  ],
  "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60"
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "New York City",
        "Q60"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}