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cities

City geographic and demographic information including location coordinates, population, timezone, elevation, and administrative details. Used for location services, mapping applications, and geographic data systems.

🎯 Request Builder

https://api.mockly.codes/cities?page=1&limit=10&count=10
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Configure your request and click Send Request to see the response here.

Endpoints

GET/cities

Get a collection of cities

Alternative: /location/cities
GET/cities/:id

Get a single city by ID

Alternative: /location/cities/:id
GET/cities/meta

Get resource metadata and schema

Alternative: /location/cities/meta
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How to Use Search

The search feature allows you to filter results by searching for text across all or specific fields. Choose between ?q= or ?search= parameter names.

1. Basic Search

Search across all text fields:

Basic Search
GET https://api.mockly.codes/cities?q=laptop

2. Search Specific Fields

Field-Specific Search
GET https://api.mockly.codes/cities?q=laptop&search_fields=name,description

💡 Pro Tips

  • •Search is case-insensitive and performs partial matching
  • •Without search_fields, all text fields are searched
  • •Combine with pagination to handle large result sets efficiently

Code Examples

JavaScript

Fetch Collection
// Get 10 cities
fetch('https://api.mockly.codes/cities?count=10')
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(data => console.log(data));

Python

Fetch with Requests
import requests

response = requests.get(
    'https://api.mockly.codes/cities?count=10'
)
data = response.json()

cURL

Command Line
curl "https://api.mockly.codes/cities?count=10"

Bypass Cache

Get Fresh Data
fetch('https://api.mockly.codes/cities?nocache=true')

Schema Properties

idintegerrequired

Unique identifier for the city record

Gen:random_int
namestringrequired

Official name of the city

Gen:city
countrystringrequired

Name of the country where the city is located

Gen:country
country_codestring

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g., US, GB, FR)

Gen:country_code
statestring

State, province, or administrative region where the city is located

Gen:state
latitudenumber

Geographic latitude coordinate (decimal degrees, -90 to 90)

Gen:latitude
longitudenumber

Geographic longitude coordinate (decimal degrees, -180 to 180)

Gen:longitude
populationinteger

Total population of the city

Gen:city_population
timezonestring

IANA timezone identifier (e.g., America/New_York, Europe/London)

Gen:timezone
elevationinteger

Elevation above sea level in meters

Gen:elevation

Query Parameters

countinteger

Number of items to return (default: 10, max: 100)

seedinteger

Seed for reproducible data generation

nocacheboolean

Bypass cache and generate fresh data on every request