Summary

Geographic figures that came from a dataset, with the city coverage going far past capitals.

Country statistics are the easy half; the 13.4 million cities are what makes it useful, since a city search or a radius query resolves places a model would otherwise guess coordinates for. The rankings tool covers the standard measures — population, area, GDP, HDI, life expectancy — alongside nine Bamwor-specific indices, and it works without a key, with one only raising the limits.

What it is

A lookup server over the Bamwor world dataset: 261 countries and territories with 20+ statistics each, and 13.4 million cities, drawn from the CIA World Factbook, GeoNames, UNDP and the World Bank.

What you get

A country by name, slug or ISO code, returning population, area, capital, region, coordinates and its full statistics
Country search by name or keyword, optionally narrowed to a region
City search worldwide by name, and cities listed for one country sorted by population or name with a minimum-population filter
One city by its GeoNames ID, with coordinates, population, elevation, timezone, province and country
Nearby cities found by radius search, returned with the distance in kilometres
Two countries compared side by side across population, area, GDP, HDI, life expectancy and the rest
Country rankings by population, area, GDP, HDI or life expectancy, plus nine Bamwor indices — ibeu, ibcp, ibda, ibcx, ibee, ibfm, ibdi, ibed and ibsa

Requirements

It works anonymously — no key needed to start. BAMWOR_API_KEY is optional and raises the rate limits and access; a free one comes from https://bamwor.com/en/developers/quickstart. Run it with npx -y bamwor-mcp-server over stdio; the npm package is bamwor-mcp-server, currently 0.2.2, and needs Node.js 20 or newer. BAMWOR_API_URL overrides the base URL, which defaults to https://bamwor.com/api/v1, and BAMWOR_REQUEST_TIMEOUT the timeout, which defaults to 15000 ms.

Setup effort

One command — npx bamwor-mcp-server

Bamwor World Data