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

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.