Coordinates to City — Lat/Lng to City Name

Paste any latitude/longitude pair (or click the map) and get the city, state, country, and county in one second. Worldwide coverage via OpenStreetMap. Free, no sign-up, no API key.

The Coordinates-to-City tool is a focused reverse geocoder. Unlike a full address lookup — which returns the street, number, elevation, and time zone — this one keeps the spotlight on the city(with state, country, and county as supporting fields). It is the right tool when you have a pin from a satellite tool, an EXIF photo geotag, a flight log, or a customer's "the pin" message, and the only question is what city is that?.

Accepts decimal degrees (e.g. 40.7128, -74.0060) or hemisphere-suffixed coordinates (40.7128 N 74.0060 W). You can also click anywhere on the map below.

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Enter coordinates, click on the map, or pick an example below.

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How to use it

Paste your coordinates or click the map. Enter a latitude/longitude pair in the input box — formats like "40.7128, -74.0060" or "40.7128 N 74.0060 W" both work. Or just click anywhere on the map to set the point visually.
Hit Look up — or use My location. The Look-up button runs the reverse geocode. The "My location" button uses your browser GPS as the input. Either way the answer appears in the result card on the right within a second or two.
Read the city, state, and country. The result card shows the city as the large headline. State/region, country (with flag emoji), county, and postcode appear in the field grid below. The full street address — if any — is in the prose summary at the bottom of the card.
Try a famous example. The chips below the tool jump straight to Times Square, the Eiffel Tower, Sydney Opera House, and four other landmarks. Useful as a sanity check and as a way to compare how Nominatim handles different city naming conventions.

What people use this tool for

Identify a city from a satellite or aerial photo

You drop a pin on a satellite image and need a name to caption it. Paste the lat/lng from the satellite tool — the city, state, and country come back in one call. Works for any country, any zoom level. Far easier than scrolling around Google Maps trying to find the same spot.

Inspect an EXIF geotag from a photo

Every modern phone embeds latitude/longitude in JPG/HEIC metadata. Paste those coordinates here to see exactly which city the photo was taken in — useful for travel albums, archival photo cataloguing, journalism fact-checks, and family history projects.

Verify a delivery, ride-share, or event drop pin

A customer or driver shares "the pin" — coordinates instead of an address. This tool turns those bare numbers into a real city + street so dispatch, logistics, or event ops can confirm the location matches the booking.

Drone or aerial-survey log review

Flight logs are pure lat/lng. To check which cities a multi-leg flight passed over, paste each waypoint into the tool and read off the city, county, and state. Useful for FAA Part 107 record-keeping and for cleaning up flight-log reports.

Geofencing and real-estate territory work

When defining a service area or sales territory by lat/lng polygon vertices, you often need to confirm "what city is that vertex in?". This tool answers it in one click — no QGIS, no PostGIS, no API key, no monthly bill.

Trivia, quizzes, and curiosity

"What city is at exactly 35.0, 135.0?" (Kyoto.) "What city is at 0, 0?" (No city — it’s the Gulf of Guinea.) The Coordinates-to-City tool makes those questions trivial, and the map view gives a satisfying visual confirmation of the answer.

How the lookup works

The tool sends your latitude and longitude to Nominatim, the OpenStreetMap reverse-geocoding service. Nominatim runs a spatial query against the OSM database to find the smallest administrative polygon that contains your point, then walks up the admin hierarchy to assemble a full address: house → road → suburb → city → state → country.

For coordinates inside a city polygon the answer is direct. For coordinates between cities (suburbs, rural areas) Nominatim returns the nearest named populated place — which is usually the right answer for "which city?" semantics. For ocean and ice-cap coordinates there is no city, only a region or "no address" message.

Related geo-lookup tools

For just the country (with ISO code and flag): Coordinates to Country. For the US state (with abbreviation and county): Coordinates to State. For the full street address with elevation and time zone: Coordinates to Address. For the US county a coordinate falls in: Address to County Lookup. For converting coordinate formats (DMS, UTM, Plus Codes): GPS Coordinate Converter.

Frequently asked questions

Paste the latitude and longitude into the input box at the top of the page (decimals like "40.7128, -74.0060" or hemisphere format like "40.7128 N 74.0060 W"), or just click on the map. The result card on the right shows the city, state/region, country, and county within a second.

Yes — the tool is fully worldwide. It uses the OpenStreetMap reverse-geocode service Nominatim, which has global coverage. Cities in Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, and Oceania all return correctly. For rural areas anywhere in the world the result may be the nearest town or village rather than a major city.

Reverse geocoders return the nearest named populated place. For coordinates in genuinely empty terrain (open desert, ocean, ice cap) you’ll get a county or region name — or the message that no address data exists. For suburban edges the answer is usually the nearest incorporated city or census-designated place.

Nominatim is accurate to roughly one neighbourhood inside major cities and to roughly one named place (city, town, village) in rural areas. It does not know unincorporated subdivisions by name, so a Tampa-suburb address might return "Tampa" or "Hillsborough County" depending on the polygon you fall inside.

The full Coordinates to Address tool returns the complete street address, elevation, time zone, and structured address components. This focused tool returns just the city, state, and country — quicker to scan when that is all you need, and ranks separately for the "coordinates to city" keyword cluster. Both tools share the same Nominatim backend.

It is the most populated named place at the OpenStreetMap admin level that contains your coordinate. In practice this is the incorporated city, town, village, or hamlet — whichever applies. If multiple apply, Nominatim returns the most prominent.

The tool requests English (the accept-language header is set to en). If a city does not have an English name in OpenStreetMap, the local-language name is returned — for example Praha (Prague) or 北京 (Beijing) in regions where the English mapping is missing from OSM.

It is free with no sign-up. Nominatim has a usage policy of about one request per second per IP — the tool throttles to stay inside that limit, so for a few lookups in a row it works smoothly. For batch reverse-geocoding hundreds of points, use a bulk reverse-geocoder tool instead.

Yes — tap the "📍 My location" button. The tool requests your browser GPS (you will be asked for permission) and runs the lookup immediately. Your location does not leave your browser except to query Nominatim.

Decimal degrees with a comma or space ("40.7128, -74.0060") and hemisphere-suffixed coordinates ("40.7128 N 74.0060 W"). For more exotic formats (DMS, UTM, MGRS, Plus Codes) convert them first with our GPS Coordinate Converter, then paste the decimal result here.

Typically under one second on a normal broadband connection. Nominatim is a global service hosted by the OpenStreetMap Foundation; latency depends on your distance to their server. Each lookup is one HTTP request.

A red error message will explain why. The most common reasons are: (1) you hit the per-second rate limit and need to wait a moment, (2) the coordinates are in international waters where no admin data exists, (3) a temporary network issue. Try again in a few seconds.

Data sources & methodology

Reverse geocoding via Nominatim (OpenStreetMap Foundation, ODbL licence). Map basemap via OpenFreeMap Liberty (OpenStreetMap-derived). Coordinate parsing supports decimal degrees and hemisphere-suffixed decimals. No data is stored or shared — each lookup is a single HTTPS request from your browser to Nominatim, with the Nominatim usage policy (≤ 1 request per second) respected by the throttled UI. For batch lookups please use a self-hosted Nominatim instance or our forthcoming bulk reverse geocoder.

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