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Because of geonames.org's API limit, I tried to download its data dump to match with my record.

However, it seems like the allCountries.txt data dump seems incomplete with only ~ 7 million records. Indeed, Geonames.org claims to have over 11 million records.

For example, Guatemala City -- ID 0003598132 is available on the API, but not in the allCountries.txt.

Am I using the correct data dump? Or is there a more complete dump?

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Are you sure that Guatemala City ID3598132 is not in your file ?

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I used the version of allCountries.txt found here.

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    You are correct -- it's a failure of my parsing code.
    – Heisenberg
    Feb 13, 2017 at 3:58

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