City Location Database

As of 2008-07-14 this data no longer seems to be available.

World cities database. Data plus python interface provided.

Data

Data files are located in subdirectory http://atarax.org/citiesinfo/citiesinfo/

License

Code is LGPL but no explicit license stated for data (since it appears much of this data is extracted from US Federal sources one might guess that it is public domain).