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48.211380
16.375570
40.737970
-73.973190
-37.830460
144.901100
47.374280
8.540880
-12.912850
-38.470379
Vienna
New York
Victoria
Zurich
Salvador
Rotenturmstraße 25, 1010
35 Waterside Plaza, NY 10010
4/202 Lorimer St, Port Melbourne
Uraniastrasse 3, 8001
R. Joel Lopes 109, BA 41280-630
- Real-Time Geocoding Geocode any global address or set of coordinates in real-time and look up location components, country and timezone data, and plenty more.
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JSON
Available Formats: JSON, XML, GeoJSON
{
"data": [
{
"latitude": 40.755884,
"longitude": -73.978504,
"name": "565 5 Ave",
"type": "address",
"number": "565",
"street": "5 Ave",
"postal_code": "10017",
"confidence": 1,
"region": "New York",
"region_code": "NY",
"administrative_area": null,
"neighbourhood": "Midtown East",
"country": "United States",
"country_code": "USA",
"label": "565 5 Ave, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA",
"map_url": "https://map.positionstack.com/export/embed.html?bbox=-73.978004,40.756384,-73.979004,40.755384&layer=mapnik&marker=40.755884,-73.978504",
"country_module": {
"latitude": "39.44325637817383",
"longitude": "-98.95733642578125",
"common_name": "United States",
"official_name": "United States of America",
"capital": "Washington D.C.",
"flag": "🇺🇸",
"area": 9372610,
"landlocked": false,
"independent": true,
"global": {
"alpha2": "US",
"alpha3": "USA",
"numeric_code": "840",
"region": "Americas",
"subregion": "Northern America",
"region_code": "019",
"subregion_code": "021",
"world_region": "AMER",
"continent_name": "North America",
"continent_code": "NA"
},
"dial": {
"calling_code": "1",
"national_prefix": "1",
"international_prefix": "011"
},
"currencies": [
{
"symbol": "$",
"code": "USD",
"name": "US Dollar",
"numeric": 840,
"minor_unit": 2
}
],
"languages": {
"eng": "English"
}
},
"sun_module": {
"rise": {
"time": 1575633924,
"astronomical": 1575628051,
"civil": 1575632092,
"nautical": 1575630040
},
"set": {
"time": 1575667704,
"astronomical": 1575673576,
"civil": 1575669535,
"nautical": 1575671587
},
"transit": 1575650814
},
"timezone_module": {
"name": "America/New_York",
"offset_sec": -18000,
"offset_string": "-05:00"
}
]
}
}
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