Statistics

In this database there are 192,410 cities. Every city has latitude, longitude coordinates, population, elevation and time zone data. Almost every city has information about first level administrative division but only 16% have fourth level subdivision too. More info in first table:

Level of admin.div.	cities	%
Admin 1:	192,215	99.9%
Admin 2:	137,962	71.7%
Admin 3:	85,720	44.6%
Admin 4:	30,656	15.9%

Latitude stat.

More than 89% of cities are located on North Hemisphere:

Hemisphere	Cities	%
North	171,581	89.2%
South	20,829	10.8%

Very big percent, almost 72% of cities are located in North Temperate geographical zone between Arctic Circle and Tropic of Cancer:

GEO Zones	Cities	%
North polar zone	230	0.1%
North temperate zone	138,306	71.9%
North Torrid (tropical) z.	33,045	17.2%
South Torrid (Tropical) z.	13,931	7.2%
South temperate zone	6,897	3.6%
South polar zone	1	0.0005%

Longitude

There are almost twice as many cities in the Eastern Hemisphere as in the West. 6 cities from our list are located on prime meridian (0° long.)

Longitude hemisphere	Cities	%
West	66,054	34.3%
On prime meridian:	6	0.003%
East	126,350	65.7%

Average longitude of cities on West half is -67.318496° and average longitude on East side is 50.543296°.

Elevation

Most of the cities has elevation near sea-level. More statistics about elevation read here.

Elevation range [m]	Cities	%
-500..-1	579	0.3%
0..99	67,445	35.1%
100..199	31,866	16.6%
200..299	22,430	11.7%
300..399	14,438	7.5%
400..499	10,913	5.7%
500..999	23,163	12.0%
1000..1999	14,331	7.4%
2000+	7245	3.8%

Population

Average population calculated from all cities in our database is 16408 people per city, but the standard deviation is high, see the table:

Population:	Cities	%
0-999	80,148	41.7%
1,000-9,999	80,192	41.7%
10,000-99,999	27,632	14.4%
100,000-999,999	4,075	2.1%
1,000,000-9,999,999	348	0.2%
10,000,000+	15	0.01%

Other

In our database, cities from Europe are dominating. Number of cities is almost equal with places from Asia and America together, BUT most of these cities are small locations, below 10,000 population. For example, in Asia there are a lot of cities above 1 million population (1M+ in last two rows):