World Capitals API

Use this API for a simple, dependable country-capital lookup in education, travel, and reference products. It exposes normalized JSON endpoints with practical filters, source metadata, and lightweight reference tables so developers can add lookup and discovery features without maintaining their own scraper or curation pipeline.

Data live countriescapitalsgeographywikipedia

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Use Cases

add country-capital autocomplete
build geography quizzes and reference widgets
normalize basic country/capital data

Access

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Endpoints

GET/api/worldcapitals/capitals

List capitals or filter by country, region, or capital.

Query parameters: country, region, capital

/api/worldcapitals/capitals?country=example

GET/api/worldcapitals/regions

List regions covered by this module.

/api/worldcapitals/regions

Pricing

Basic: $0/day for 10 requests. Evaluation tier for testing the API in prototypes.
Pro: $9/month for 10000 requests. Small production apps, internal tools, and niche content sites.
Business: $29/month for 100000 requests. Higher-volume apps, catalog enrichment, and recurring data workflows.

Data Notes

Source: Wikipedia. Refresh cadence: 7d. Records include source attribution when exposed by the API response.

Primary table: capitals