Terralocate

Data Sources

Terralocate is built on open data. Every fact, figure, map layer, and image on this site comes from a publicly available dataset or API. Below is the complete list of sources we use, grouped by category, with links to the original publishers and their licensing terms.

Encyclopedic & Reference

  • Wikipedia

    Text excerpts, historical descriptions, and place overviews under CC BY-SA 4.0

  • Wikidata

    Structured facts — population, area, elevation, coordinates, inception — queried via SPARQL under CC0

  • Wikimedia Commons

    Photographs and media, each under its own license (CC BY-SA, CC BY, CC0, or public domain)

Geographic & Mapping

United States Federal

  • US Census Bureau

    ACS, Decennial Census, TIGER/Line, and Population Estimates — public domain

  • CDC PLACES

    Local health indicators — public domain

  • FEMA National Risk Index

    Natural-hazard risk scores — public domain

  • NCES

    Schools and education institutions — public domain

  • USGS

    Earthquakes, stream gauges, elevation — public domain

  • NOAA / National Weather Service

    Climate normals, forecasts, alerts — public domain

  • EPA

    Walkability Index, AirNow, pollution facilities — public domain

Crime & Safety

Weather & Environment

National Statistical Offices

  • Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

    Census and regional statistics via SDMX

  • Statistics Bureau of Japan

    Japanese national and regional statistics

  • ONS (UK)

    UK Office for National Statistics — Open Government Licence

  • NRS (Scotland)

    National Records of Scotland — Open Government Licence

  • NISRA (Northern Ireland)

    Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency

  • Statistics Canada (StatCan)

    Canadian national statistics

  • Destatis (Germany)

    German Federal Statistical Office — Datenlizenz Deutschland

  • INSEE (France)

    French National Institute of Statistics

  • IBGE (Brazil)

    Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics

  • ISTAT (Italy)

    Italian National Institute of Statistics — Elenco comuni italiani (CC BY 3.0 IT)

  • INEGI (Mexico)

    Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía — claves de municipios (via Wikidata P3801)

  • Destatis (Germany)

    Statistisches Bundesamt — Amtlicher Gemeindeschlüssel (AGS), via Wikidata P439

  • e-Stat / Statistics Bureau of Japan

    Japanese government statistics portal — JIS X 0402 dantai codes, via Wikidata P429

  • INE (Spain)

    Instituto Nacional de Estadística — municipality codes, via Wikidata P772

  • CBS (Netherlands)

    Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek — gemeente codes, via Wikidata P382

  • SSB (Norway)

    Statistics Norway — Kartverket Stedsnavn / SSR place gazetteer (NLOD)

  • BFS (Switzerland)

    Swiss Federal Statistical Office — communes officielles (OpenData.swiss)

  • Tilastokeskus (Finland)

    Statistics Finland — municipality codes via PXWeb API

  • ČSÚ (Czechia)

    Czech Statistical Office — RÚIAN obce dataset

  • INE (Portugal)

    Instituto Nacional de Estatística — CAOP freguesias (geoapi.pt)

  • Statbel (Belgium)

    Statistics Belgium — BeST/NIS municipality identifiers

  • INDEC (Argentina)

    Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos — used alongside Georef datos.gob.ar

  • TurkStat (TÜİK)

    Turkish Statistical Institute — used alongside turkiyeapi.dev

  • INE (Chile)

    Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas — comuna codes via BCN datos

  • DANE (Colombia)

    Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística — DIVIPOLA municipality codes

  • Stats SA

    Statistics South Africa — Census 2011 via ArcGIS REST

  • NSO (Thailand)

    National Statistical Office of Thailand — province statistics via SDMX-JSON

  • BPS (Indonesia)

    Badan Pusat Statistik — provincial and regency statistics via WebAPI

  • PSA (Philippines)

    Philippine Statistics Authority — OpenSTAT province- and city-level data

  • GSO (Vietnam)

    General Statistics Office of Vietnam — provincial statistics

  • NBS (Nigeria)

    National Bureau of Statistics — state-level statistics

  • CAPMAS (Egypt)

    Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics — governorate statistics

  • KNBS (Kenya)

    Kenya National Bureau of Statistics — county census

  • ELSTAT (Greece)

    Hellenic Statistical Authority — municipality statistics via SDMX

  • CSA (Ethiopia)

    Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia — regional and woreda statistics

  • ONS (Algeria)

    Office National des Statistiques — wilaya and commune census

  • INE (Angola)

    Instituto Nacional de Estatística — provincial census and indicators

  • INStaD (Benin)

    Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie — commune statistics

  • Statistics Botswana

    District and city demographics

  • INSD (Burkina Faso)

    Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie — RGPH census

  • ISTEEBU (Burundi)

    Institut de Statistiques et d'Études Économiques du Burundi

  • INE (Cabo Verde)

    Instituto Nacional de Estatística — concelho data

  • INS (Cameroon)

    Institut National de la Statistique du Cameroun — RGPH and regional indicators

  • ICASEES (CAR)

    Institut Centrafricain des Statistiques — préfecture data

  • INSEED (Chad)

    Institut National de la Statistique, des Études Économiques et Démographiques

  • INSEED (Comoros)

    Institut National de la Statistique — island and commune data

  • INS (Republic of the Congo)

    Institut National de la Statistique — département census

  • INS (DR Congo)

    Institut National de la Statistique — provincial demographics

  • INS (Côte d'Ivoire)

    Institut National de la Statistique — RGPH and regional indicators

  • DISED (Djibouti)

    Direction de la Statistique et des Études Démographiques

  • INEGE (Equatorial Guinea)

    Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Guinea Ecuatorial

  • NSO (Eritrea)

    National Statistics Office — regional indicators (limited online)

  • CSO (Eswatini)

    Central Statistical Office — population and housing census

  • DGS (Gabon)

    Direction Générale de la Statistique — provincial demographics

  • GBoS (Gambia)

    Gambia Bureau of Statistics — division and LGA data

  • INS (Guinea)

    Institut National de la Statistique — RGPH and regional census

  • INE (Guinea-Bissau)

    Instituto Nacional de Estatística — regional indicators

  • BOS (Lesotho)

    Bureau of Statistics — district and constituency demographics

  • LISGIS (Liberia)

    Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services — county census

  • BSC (Libya)

    Bureau of Statistics and Census — district and shabiyah data

  • INSTAT (Madagascar)

    Institut National de la Statistique — regional and district demographics

  • NSO (Malawi)

    National Statistical Office — population and housing census

  • INSTAT (Mali)

    Institut National de la Statistique — RGPH and regional data

  • ANSADE (Mauritania)

    Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Démographique et Économique

  • Statistics Mauritius

    District and municipality demographics

  • INE (Mozambique)

    Instituto Nacional de Estatística — provincial and district census

  • NSA (Namibia)

    Namibia Statistics Agency — regional and constituency demographics

  • INS (Niger)

    Institut National de la Statistique — RGPH and regional data

  • NISR (Rwanda)

    National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda — provincial and sector data

  • INE (São Tomé and Príncipe)

    Instituto Nacional de Estatística — district demographics

  • ANSD (Senegal)

    Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie — regional and commune census

  • NBS (Seychelles)

    National Bureau of Statistics — district indicators

  • Stats Sierra Leone

    Statistics Sierra Leone — district and chiefdom census

  • SNBS (Somalia)

    Somali National Bureau of Statistics — regional and district indicators

  • NBS (South Sudan)

    National Bureau of Statistics — state and county data

  • CBS (Sudan)

    Central Bureau of Statistics — state demographics

  • NBS (Tanzania)

    National Bureau of Statistics — regional and district census

  • INSEED (Togo)

    Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques et Démographiques

  • UBOS (Uganda)

    Uganda Bureau of Statistics — district and subcounty data

  • ZamStats

    Zambia Statistics Agency — provincial and district census

  • ZIMSTAT (Zimbabwe)

    Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency — provincial and district demographics

Country-Specific Registries & APIs

Biodiversity & Nature

  • GBIF

    Global Biodiversity Information Facility — species occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-NC)

  • iNaturalist

    Community-contributed species observations and photos — per-contributor license

Health

  • CDC PLACES

    Model-based local health estimates — public domain

Culture & Libraries

Licensing & Attribution

Each dataset remains the property of its original publisher and is used under its own license. Key licenses you will encounter:

  • Public Domain / US Government — Census, NOAA, USGS, CDC, FEMA, NCES, EPA data is public domain and may be reused freely.
  • CC BY-SA 4.0 — Wikipedia text and many Commons images. Downstream reuse must attribute and remain share-alike.
  • ODbL — OpenStreetMap data. Substantial reuse requires attribution to “© OpenStreetMap contributors” and may trigger share-alike.
  • CC0 — Wikidata structured facts and many GBIF records. No attribution required, though credit is appreciated.
  • Per-contributor — iNaturalist photos and some GBIF datasets carry the license chosen by the original contributor.

If you believe a source is improperly attributed or used in error, please contact us.