Find country by knowing city name?

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I have pages that show city names like:

“meet people in new york”

How can I out put the country name knowing the city?

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either you have a mapping of cities to countries (e.g. in a database) or you query a geolocation service. although both variants can result in more than one country per city. e.g. the city named “Berlin” exists in 12 different countries.

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You can’t easily. There are over a dozen places in the world named London, 10 in the USA, 1 in Canada, 1 in France - oh and one in England. So you really need to specify which one you’re referring to.

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You would need a database of cities which includes a unique ID key as well as County and possibly state/county/region to be sure which city of that name is the right one.
That is if your data will contains cities with duplicate names, it may not be that big.

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Thanks yo all guys well guess have to do it the hard way!

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