The original source of "world.cities" is no longer available. The best free online source is probably geonames.org
The cities5000 data set has about the same number of entries as world.cities (~40,000) of which about half coincide. So it is not identical, but at least has some more recent data and quality control.
The original source of "world.cities" is no longer available. The best free online source is probably geonames.org
The cities5000 data set has about the same number of entries as world.cities (~40,000) of which about half coincide. So it is not identical, but at least has some more recent data and quality control.