๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ Taiwan cities โ€” free JSON dataset

5,000 cities in Taiwan, ranked by population, as a single downloadable JSON file. No API key, no rate limit, no sign-up โ€” just a static file you can fetch, cache, or commit straight into your own project.

Data updated: 2026-07-14

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Preview

The first few records, largest by population, as they appear in the file:

CityRegionPopulation
New Taipeiโ€”4,046,037
Taichungโ€”2,853,173
Kaohsiungโ€”2,734,097
Taipeiโ€”2,504,731
Taoyuanโ€”2,328,488

Field schema

FieldTypeDescription
idstring (UUID)Geomelon city ID
namestringCity name
populationnumberPopulation
latitudenumberLatitude
longitudenumberLongitude
regionstring | nullRegion/state name

What it's for

A flat, population-ranked file like this is a good fit for offline builds, seed data for a database, a country/city dropdown that doesn't need live search, or a quick lookup table in a script or notebook. It's a static snapshot, not a live feed โ€” there's no search index, no translations, and no guarantee it reflects changes made to Taiwan's administrative boundaries after 2026-07-14.

Need more?

For prefix search, autocomplete, multilingual names, or coordinate-based queries โ€” anything that needs to stay current or searchable โ€” use the API instead of the static file:

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://geomelon.p.rapidapi.com/cities/search?countryCode=tw&sort=population_desc&limit=10' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: geomelon.p.rapidapi.com' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

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License

This dataset is licensed under CC BY 4.0. You're free to use it for any purpose, including commercially, as long as you credit Geomelon with a link back to this page.

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