#geography

Geographic, demographic and political statistics for every country as an API — the reference a research dashboard, data-journalism piece or analytics tool needs. For each country: its government type, whether it is landlocked, surface area (km²), population, population density (people/km²) and life expectancy (years), enriched with the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and flag emoji. Look a country up by name or code, or RANK every country by any numeric statistic — the ten largest by area, the most densely populated, the highest life expectancy — in ascending or descending order. Search by name or government type, or list them all. This is the country statistics reference — distinct from countries-api (ISO identifiers: codes, dialing, currency, region) and disease-api (public-health data). Served from memory — always fast.

api.oanor.com/countrystats-api

UK postcode and geography lookup as an API, built on the open postcodes.io dataset. Resolve any UK postcode to its latitude/longitude and full administrative hierarchy — district, ward, county, parish, parliamentary constituency, region, NHS health authority and statistical areas (LSOA, MSOA). Validate a postcode, reverse-geocode coordinates to the nearest postcodes (with distance), find postcodes near a given one, autocomplete a partial postcode for address forms, look up an outcode (the first half, e.g. SW1A) and fetch a random postcode. Real data, no key needed upstream. Ideal for checkout and address forms, delivery and logistics, store locators, and UK geo-analytics.

api.oanor.com/postcode-api

Wikivoyage as an API — the free, community-written worldwide travel guide, the travel sister project of Wikipedia. Wikivoyage covers countries, cities, regions, neighbourhoods and points of interest with practical, freely-licensed advice on what to see and do, how to get around, and where to eat and sleep. This API wraps the official Wikivoyage MediaWiki service into clean JSON. /v1/destination?title=Paris returns a destination's guide: its one-line description, the introductory guide text as plain readable prose, its geographic coordinates, a thumbnail image and the canonical URL — everything to present a destination at a glance. /v1/search?q=beaches searches the travel guides by keyword and returns matching destination titles with a short snippet, for building destination finders and autocomplete. /v1/nearby?lat=48.8584&lon=2.2945&radius=10000 finds destinations and points of interest within a radius (up to 10 km) of any coordinate, sorted by distance — perfect for "what is worth visiting near me" and map-based discovery. Titles are Wikivoyage article names such as Paris, Rome, Tokyo or Paris/7th arrondissement. Ideal for travel apps, trip planners, tourism dashboards, location-based discovery and chatbots. Content is licensed CC BY-SA by the Wikivoyage community. For encyclopaedic, non-travel content, pair this with a Wikipedia API.

api.oanor.com/wikivoyage-api

National parks around the world as an API — 2,400+ national parks from 160+ countries, from Wikidata, each with its country, exact coordinates, the year it was established and its official website. Search and filter parks by name, country and establishment-year range, or find every national park near any coordinate by great-circle distance (great for "national parks near me" and trip planning). From Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon to Kruger, Banff, Torres del Paine and Kakadu, it is ideal for travel, tourism, maps, outdoor, education and nature apps. Open data from Wikidata.

api.oanor.com/nationalparks-api

Wikipedia, located — find the Wikipedia articles near any coordinate ("Wikipedia near me") as an API, live from the official MediaWiki API. Pass a latitude and longitude and get the nearby places, landmarks and points of interest with their distance in metres, a two-sentence summary, a thumbnail image and a link — perfect for travel guides, maps, augmented-reality and location-aware apps. Or look up a single article to get its coordinates, description, summary and image. Works for every language edition (en.wikipedia, de.wikipedia, fr.wikipedia and 300+ more). Open data from Wikipedia.

api.oanor.com/geowiki-api

Every UNESCO World Heritage Site as an API — all 1,236 inscribed sites worldwide (cultural, natural and mixed) from the official UNESCO World Heritage List. Look up any site by its WHC id (e.g. Galápagos Islands, Machu Picchu, Historic Centre of Rome) with its country, exact coordinates, the year it was inscribed and the UNESCO selection criteria. Search and filter by name, country, category (cultural / natural / mixed) and inscription year, or find every World Heritage Site near any coordinate by great-circle distance. Ideal for travel, tourism, maps, education and cultural-discovery apps.

api.oanor.com/heritage-api

Classify any location's climate with the Köppen-Geiger system — the standard used across geography, ecology, agriculture and architecture. Provide a location's twelve monthly mean temperatures and precipitation totals and get back its climate code (for example Cfb or BWh), the climate group and full name, a description, and a block of derived statistics (annual mean temperature, annual precipitation, warmest and coldest month, driest month, months above 10 °C, summer-precipitation share and the aridity threshold). The hemisphere is auto-detected from the temperature curve, or you can set it explicitly. A reference endpoint returns all thirty Köppen-Geiger codes with names, groups, descriptions and example cities. Every endpoint accepts input via the query string or the request body and returns lean JSON. Pure server-side computation (no third-party upstream), so responses are instant and always available. Ideal for EdTech and geography tools, AgTech and crop-suitability apps, architecture and GIS pipelines.

api.oanor.com/climate-api

Reference data for all 250 countries and territories — capitals, ISO codes (alpha-2/alpha-3), currencies, languages, flags, population, area, borders, calling codes and more. Look up by name, ISO code, region, currency or language.

api.oanor.com/countries-api