Terralocate

Comprehensive, Wikipedia-style profiles of every town, city, and village — built from open public data.

About Terralocate

We got tired of browsing dozens of different sites to learn about the many places around the globe we'd love to visit. We got tired of manually finding ways to compare the differences between living in Chicago and Dallas, or any other cities, for that matter.

The central idea of Terralocate is simple: aggregate all the dozens of open source data repositories out there, for every continent and country, and make it easy to see the slice of the data you care about most. One page per place. One page to compare two cities. Population, weather, schools, cost-of-living signals, landmarks, history, all in one spot, and all sourced from public datasets you could in theory look up yourself.

Data sources

Each page is stitched together from open, public datasets — including Wikipedia and Wikidata (via SPARQL for population, area, elevation, and head of government), OpenStreetMap via the Overpass API, and national statistical offices and government registries around the world — including the US Census Bureau, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the UK ONS, Argentina’s Georef registry, and Türkiye’s public provinces API. A full list of sources, with licensing and attribution, is on the Terms of Use page.