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Is there any joint effort project to generate a database table of -unique- strings for geographical areas (like Oslo would be listed as just "Oslo" because there is only one Oslo, whereas Victoria would be listed both as "Victoria, Australia" and "Victoria, British Columbia".)

"Areas" would be approximately "second level administrative divisions", like U.S. Counties, Norwegian "kommuner" and Dutch "geemente", though countries with complex geographical systems would have to be individually handled.

If there is no such project and anyone would like to start one, please indicate your interest. It would be a side project to Geonames, or possibly integrate into it. Geonames has no world-unique string like this to my knowledge.

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Um... geonames.org?