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GeoApi

French administrative geography — communes, departments, regions

🗺 Geo & MapsHEALTHYchecked 9h ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ✓

The French government's Découpage Administratif API resolves communes, departments, and regions by name, code, or postcode, with population and INSEE codes attached. Keyless JSON, CORS-friendly, backed by official open data. Ideal for French address and territory lookups.

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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 88 · healthy
Uptime history
97.8%90 days
98.3%30 days
428P50 · ms
2895P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 97 ms, slowest 1716 ms, most recent 116 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://geo.api.gouv.fr/communes?nom=Paris&limit=1

[
  {
    "nom": "Parisot",
    "code": "81202",
    "codeDepartement": "81",
    "codeRegion": "76",
    "codesPostaux": [
      "81310"
    ],
    "population": 1033
  }
]
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://geo.api.gouv.fr/communes?nom=Paris&limit=1"
const res = await fetch("https://geo.api.gouv.fr/communes?nom=Paris&limit=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://geo.api.gouv.fr/communes?nom=Paris&limit=1")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 3HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /communes?nom=Paris&limit=1428 mschecked 9h ago
GET/communes?nom=Paris&limit=1PROBED

French administrative geography — communes, departments, regions

GET/communes?limit=5

Communes — documented GET route.

GET/communes?page=1

Communes — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

GeoApi: common questions

Is GeoApi free to use?

Yes — GeoApi is a free geo & maps API. Free tier: Free, no API key. Commercial use is allowed on the free tier.

Does GeoApi need an API key?

No — GeoApi needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call GeoApi from the browser?

Yes — GeoApi returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is GeoApi up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, GeoApi is healthy with 97.8% uptime over 90 days and a 428 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.