Nominatim (OpenStreetMap)

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Not a mockup — this is what Nominatim (OpenStreetMap) actually returned when we verified it on 23 Oct 2026 (in 1848 ms).

[
  {
    "place_id": 212855670,
    "licence": "Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. http://osm.org/copyright",
    "osm_type": "node",
    "osm_id": 58744442,
    "lat": "33.5915446",
    "lon": "73.0537210",
    "class": "place",
    "type": "city",
    "place_rank": 16,
    "importance": 0.570181864221015,
    "addresstype": "city",
    "name": "راولپنڈی",
    "display_name": "راولپنڈی, صدر, تحصیل راولپنڈی شہر, ضلع راولپنڈی, راولپنڈی ڈویژن, پنجاب, 23451, پاکستان",
    "boundingbox": [
      "33.4315446",
      "33.7515446",
      "72.8937210",
      "73.2137210"
    ]
  }
]

💻 Copy-paste code

Three ways to call Nominatim (OpenStreetMap) — pick your weapon.

// Nominatim (OpenStreetMap) — no build step, no library. Just fetch.
const res = await fetch("https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=Rawalpindi&format=json&limit=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

# Nominatim (OpenStreetMap) with Python requests
import requests

r = requests.get("https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=Rawalpindi&format=json&limit=1")
print(r.status_code)
print(r.json())

# Nominatim (OpenStreetMap) from your terminal
curl "https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=Rawalpindi&format=json&limit=1"

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