adminDivisions

This is simply the best and most comprehensive country subdivisions database on the market. Not only does it contain multiple levels of divisions for many countries, but also all of the names in their local language and writing system.

In some cases, city-level data like our worldCities database is not required, but you still need to offer your users the possibility to select their location and a country / states list would not be detailed enough.

It contains about 73,000 names for more than 60,000 geographic and administrative divisions worldwide. Each and every of those names is identified by its ISO language code and, besides a few exceptions (when there is a lack of support even in UTF-8), all names are in their local language and writing system. Names in character sets other than Latin also have their transliterated (romanized) version and/or English translation. This makes the Kelmond adminDivisions database the perfect solution for international audiences.

Download a free PDF document containing the types and number of divisions, as well as sample names in the available languages.

Contact us to receive free sample data for the country your choice, with absolutely no obligation!

adminDivisions files available for purchase

Name Delivery License Last update Price
(without updates)		 Price
(including 1-year updates)
adminDivisions Standard - World download single June 17, 2008 € 239.99 EUR
 € 383.98 EUR
All of our databases include free unlimited e-mail support.

The default license includes the right to use the data on one (1) server (website, intranet...), and does not authorize redistribution or integration into products to be distributed (CMS, software application,...)

Please contact us if you need to use the data on multiple projects (discounts available), want redistributing rights or simply have questions about our License Agreement and the authorized uses.

adminDivisions database structure

Having comprehensive and accurate data is good, but if it's not well structured, it might not be very useful. That's why not only adminDivisions, but all of our databases are structured in a very efficient way, which is a compromise between usability and database normalization (which do not always meet the same requirements). This results in very easy to use data, and the possibility to retrieve all the details for specific records with very simple and fast queries.

For easier maintenance, we also assigned a unique identification number to each feature. It is thus possible to store that number to refer to a particular feature, no matter the language used to display the name.

Click here to view the full structure of each table and detailed descriptions of their fields.

Requirements and files information

The adminDivisions data is available in text files (tab delimited) encoded in Unicode (UTF-8). It can therefore be imported in virtually any database, including MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc... The only requirements are that you have enough free space on you hard drive to store the files and that you can import those files into your database.

For faster download, files are compressed in ZIP format.