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Whether you develop an application to be used in a closed environment or a website, chances are that at some point your users will need to enter information such as the country, state and city they come from. And if you've ever asked those users to type that information in a field, you probably found out that your database was quickly filled with many name variants (for instance, "Washington", "washington, d.c.", "WASHINGTON D.C.

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http://www.geohive.com/ Welcome to GeoHive, a site with all kinds of statistics. The main component is population statistics: historical, projections, cities, agglomerations, etc. But also geopolitical data like the administrative divisions of countries (provinces, counties and such) of all nations of this world.

GeoHive: Global Statistics