Search for place names
| Just type in the name of the place you are looking for. The search will immediately start and present the results. When the desired place is in a different country, you can easily change it after you typed in the name of the place. |
You will find cities, lakes, beaches, mountains, attractions and many more place types in our database, totalling more than 3 million populated places and more than 8 million places worldwide.
Search for postal codes
| You can find towns in European and some American countries by their postal code. |
Improve your search results
There is a good chance that you will immediately get the result you wanted, but you can try to get better results if you know how the global location search works:
- The search is in "exact mode" when exactly two letters are entered. That means that you will have to enter at least three letters, if the name of the desired place is three or more characters long. If you are, however, searching for e.g. "Au" in Germany, you can enter "au" in the search form and will not be bothered with the results of all the other bigger cities that start with "Au".
- Blanks do not influence the search results. Both "Newyork" or "New York" will give the same results. Neither is the search case sensitive nor does it pay attention to special characters. A search for "nE?w'y(Or)k" is still the same as a search for "New York".
- Type in more characters to get better results.
- Use the sort function if you want to change the order of the results.