This database is primarily of world cities of population greater than about 40,000. Also included are capital cities of any population size, and many smaller towns.
data(world.cities)A list with 6 components, namely "name", "country.etc", "pop", "lat", "long", and "capital", containing the city name, the country name, approximate population (as at January 2006), latitude, longitude and capital status indication (0 for non-capital, 1 for capital, 2 for China Municipalities, and 3 for China Provincial capitals)
Some of the country names and city names may be out of date. Please send any corrections to the package maintainer.