---
title: "Global place geocode"
method: POST
path: "/v1/data/place-geocode"
tags: ["data"]
---

# Global place geocode

`POST /v1/data/place-geocode`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://apiacre.com`
- URL: `https://apiacre.com/v1/data/place-geocode`
- Auth: none required

Resolve one global city or locality name into bounded, population-ranked GeoNames coordinates, country and first-level-region identity, population, timezone, feature code, and source freshness without a request-time network call.

Price: **$0.002 USDC** via x402 exact payment on Base and Solana.

## Request body

- PlaceGeocodeInput
  - `place` string, required: City or locality name with optional comma-separated country or first-level region qualifiers. Examples: 'London, GB' or 'Paris, Texas, US'. This is not a street-address, parcel, point-of-interest, or routing lookup.
  - `limit` integer: Maximum number of population-ranked exact-name candidates to return.

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- ServiceResponse
  - `request_id` string, required
  - `service` string, required
  - `version` string
  - `data` object, required
  - `meta` ServiceMeta, required
    - `duration_ms` integer, required
    - `cached` boolean
    - `sources` string[]
    - `warnings` string[]
    - `next_actions` ServiceNextAction[]
      - `service` string, required
      - `title` string, required
      - `reason` string, required
      - `method` 'POST'
      - `path` string, required
      - `price` string, required
      - `input_template` object, required
      - `use_output` string, required
      - `handoff_path` string, required
      - `checkout_path` string, required
      - `sample_path` string, nullable, required
      - `maximum_atomic_usdc` string, required
      - `handoff_payment_required` false
      - `executes_automatically` false
      - `authorization_required` boolean

## Other responses

- `402`: Payment Required. Decode PAYMENT-REQUIRED, satisfy the x402 requirement, and retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE.
- `422`: Validation Error

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