List of Countries With Population and Capital Location
I’m working on a little browser simulation of pandemic virus outbreaks. The first thing I needed was a list of countries and their populations and locations, but while I could find all this data separately, I couldn’t find it compiled together anywhere. Just in case anybody else ever needs it, I figured I’d put it up here.
The file is a CSV containing: Country code, Country name, Description/Capital, Population, Capital latitude, Capital longitude.
The data was compiled by pulling a list of countries and their capitals from Wikipedia, running them through a google maps geocoding lookup to get their location and country code, then adding in population counts from this Wikipedia entry. I can’t guarantee accuracy or perfection, and I wouldn’t suggest using these numbers for anything important.
As with the rest of this site, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. I don’t think I’m restricted by Wikipedia’s GNU Free Documentation License, since I merely used it as a reference for the data, and did not actually copy any content. If I’m misinterpreting the license, please let me know and I’ll adjust the licensing of this document accordingly.
