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Asked: 2026-05-29T05:27:37+00:00

Possible Duplicate: Country, State, Province WebService? This orignal link only shows web services or

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Country, State, Province WebService?

This “orignal” link only shows web services or places I can get lists to insert manually. Does anyone know of a library / built in class / dll that wouldn’t require hitting another server for the data and not require manual entry of each state?

I am currently adding support for Canada, Mexico, and Brazil, (and potentially more soon) to an ASP.NET website. The user can input their physical address including their state via drop down list. I currently have the US states added manually like:

states.Add(new ListItem("Alabama", "AL"));
states.Add(new ListItem("Alaska", "AK"));
etc ...

Before I go ahead and start manually creating lists for the additional countries, is there some pre-built class or library out there that can give me a list of states by passing it a country code? Example: someClass.getStatesFor("BR"); // would return a list/collection of states for Brazil.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You may find the data you need on http://www.geonames.org. State information is referred to as administrative subdivision.

    This data is available as a webservice, but you may also download it.
    The data description can be found on this page: http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/readme.txt

    There are components for various languages, but I think those are to access the web services.

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