🇲🇼 Malawi 3 administrative divisions
3 first-level administrative divisions — states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country — and 129 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.
The country
- ISO 3166-1
- MW · MWI · 454
- Capital
- Lilongwe
- Continent
- Africa
- Currency
- MWK — Malawian kwacha
- Calling code
- +265
- Internet domain
- .mw
- Divisions
- 3
- Cities and towns
- 129
Divisions
The 3 divisions of Malawi
3 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.
| Division | ISO 3166-2 | Cities and towns | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Region | MW-S | 48 | — |
| Central Region | MW-C | 36 | — |
| Northern Region | MW-N | 35 | 1,698,502 |
A further 10 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 Malawi
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/MW.json
# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/MW/<id>.jsonNo key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.