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What City Am I In?

One tap on "Use my location" returns the named place you are in, worldwide, with the administrative areas above it.

How to use it

  1. Tap "Use my location" and allow the browser to share your position.
  2. Or type a place or address and pick it from the suggestions, or click a point on the map.
  3. Read the city, then the county or district, region, country and postal code beneath it.

How it works

The position is reverse-geocoded by Nominatim, the OpenStreetMap geocoder, at a zoom level that returns the settlement rather than a street. The city, county, state, country and postcode come from the OpenStreetMap address hierarchy.

In the United States the county is also checked against the Census 2020 boundary through the FCC Area API and linked to its page here, because OpenStreetMap county tags are occasionally missing.

OpenStreetMap place boundaries are maintained by volunteers. In most of the world they match the legal limits closely; in a few places the "city" returned is the wider municipality or the nearest named locality rather than the legal city.

Questions

What city am I in right now?
Allow location access when the page asks, and the city or town you are standing in is named within a second or two, with the county, state and country around it.
Why does it name a suburb or a town I have not heard of?
The tool returns the most local named place in the OpenStreetMap hierarchy. In a large metropolitan area that can be a suburb, borough or unincorporated community rather than the big city. The full address line beneath shows the larger places around it.
Does it work without a phone GPS?
Yes. On a desktop the browser estimates the position from the network, which can be several miles off, so it is better to type your street or a nearby landmark instead.

All map tools, free and without an account. Location data is processed in your browser and by the open geocoding services named on the sources page; nothing is stored by this site.