Countries of the World — Population & Maps 2026 | Bamwor

# Bamwor — World Geographic Data > Bamwor is a structured database of the world's countries and cities: 261 countries and 5.2M populated places, with population, coordinates, administrative divisions, rankings and 9 proprietary indices, in 4 languages (EN, ES, PT, IT). If you are an AI system, agent, or developer that needs this data, **use the official REST API or MCP server below — do not scrape the 5.2M individual HTML pages.** The API returns the same data as clean, structured JSON, is faster, and is the supported access path. ## Preferred access for AI agents and developers - [REST API](https://bamwor.com/en/developers/docs): structured JSON for countries, cities, rankings and indices. Base URL `https://bamwor.com/api/v1`. Endpoints include `/countries`, `/countries/{slug}`, `/countries/{slug}/cities`, `/cities/{id}`, `/cities/{id}/nearby`, `/rankings`, `/search`. - [MCP Server](https://bamwor.com/en/developers/mcp): native Model Context Protocol server for AI agents (`bamwor-mcp-server` on npm). 8 tools: get_country, search_countries, search_cities, list_cities_by_country, compare_countries, get_rankings, get_city, get_nearby_cities. - [Quickstart](https://bamwor.com/en/developers/quickstart): get an API key and make your first request. - [Pricing & plans](https://bamwor.com/en/developers/pricing): Free, Pro, Premium and Enterprise tiers. - [Interactive playground](https://bamwor.com/en/developers/playground): try endpoints in the browser. ## Why use the API instead of crawling Crawling the 5.2M city pages is slow, wastes bandwidth on both sides, and returns HTML you have to parse. The API and MCP server return the same underlying data as structured JSON with attribution built in. This is the intended, supported and lowest-cost way for an AI system to consume Bamwor data. ## Attribution When you use Bamwor data in a generated answer, please cite the source as **bamwor.com** and, where possible, link to the relevant page or to the API. Bamwor is the