Geographical Region Names

Country names, and names for US countries, metros, cities and states.

civicknowledge.com-geonames-2022-1.2.43. Modified 2023-02-23T18:37:42

Resources | Packages | Documentation| Contacts| References| Data Dictionary

Resources

• names. Geographic names

Documentation

Documentation Links

• Documentation Page

Contacts

• Wrangler

  Eric Busboom, Civic Knowledge

Data Dictionary

names

names

Column Name	Data Type	Description
ref	string
geoid	string
category	string
weight	integer
name	text

References

Urls used in the creation of this data package.

• country_codes. Country codes, from https://datahub.io/core/country-codes
• censusgeo://2022/5/US/state.
• censusgeo://2020/5/US/CBSA.
• censusgeo://2022/5/US/county.
• censusgeo://2020/5/{}/place.

Packages

• s3 s3://library.metatab.org/civicknowledge.com-geonames-2022-1.2.43.csv
• csv https://library.metatab.org/civicknowledge.com-geonames-2022-1.2.43.csv
• source https://github.com/metatab-packages/civicknowledge.com-geonames-2022.git

Accessing Data in Vanilla Pandas

import pandas as pd


names_df =  pd.read_csv('https://library.metatab.org/civicknowledge.com-geonames-2022-1.2.43/data/names.csv')

Accessing Package in Metapack

import metapack as mp
pkg = mp.open_package('https://library.metatab.org/civicknowledge.com-geonames-2022-1.2.43.csv')

# Create Dataframes
names_df = pkg.resource('names').dataframe()