How to get city name from a latitude and longitude point with JavaScript?

Sometimes, we want to get city name from a latitude and longitude point with JavaScript.

In this article, we’ll look at how to get city name from a latitude and longitude point with JavaScript.

How to get city name from a latitude and longitude point with JavaScript?

To get city name from a latitude and longitude point with JavaScript, we can use the node-geocode library.

To install it, we run

npm i node-geocoder

Then we write

const NodeGeocoder = require("node-geocoder");

const options = {
  provider: "google",
  httpAdapter: "https",
  apiKey: "...",
  formatter: "json",
};

const geocoder = NodeGeocoder(options);

geocoder.reverse({ lat: 42.5967439, lon: 77.3285038 }, (err, res) => {
  console.log(res);
});

to create the NodeGeocode object with the options object.

apiKey is the API key for for Mapquest, OpenCage, or Google Premier.

formatter returns the result in 'json' format.

We can also return it as a 'gpx' or 'string'.

Then we call reverse with the lat latitude and lon longitude.

And we get the res from the callback which has the city included.

Conclusion

To get city name from a latitude and longitude point with JavaScript, we can use the node-geocode library.