Major cites in the world with latitude and longitude?

Question

I need a database of major cities in this world, together with their latitude longitudes and timezone. Is such a resource available?

any idea where i can get it. or any one can share it with me ?

Like this http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001769.html

Thanks in advance..

Answer 1

Wikipedia has a structured API you can query to get info about a specific entry. See this related question. This page collects some of such resources.

Answer 2

I think that would depend on what you class as a major city.

There's always the Google Maps API for obtaining Latitude, Longitude of places.

Answer 3

You can find extensive worldwide geographic datasets on this ftp site. It's of military grade :-) believe me !