Datasets:

audiala
/

audiala-places

license: cc-by-4.0
pretty_name: Audiala Places — Curated Multilingual Travel POIs
language:
  - en
  - fr
  - de
  - es
  - pt
  - it
  - hi
  - zh
  - cs
  - ja
  - ru
tags:
  - travel
  - tourism
  - poi
  - wikidata
  - multilingual
  - geospatial
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: audiala-places.csv

Audiala Places — Curated Multilingual Travel POIs

33,148 travel points of interest across 93 countries, each with a Wikidata QID, WGS84 coordinates, names in 11 languages, a type/category slug, fame signals (Wikidata PageRank + sitelink count), and a link to a published travel guide on audiala.com in each of the 11 languages.

The curation filter is editorial: a place is included if and only if Audiala has published a full travel guide for it. This dataset is deliberately not exhaustive — it is a quality-bar dataset, not an "every POI in the world" dump.

Dataset structure

One row per Wikidata entity. Provided as CSV (flat columns) and GeoJSON (FeatureCollection of Point features with the same properties).

Field	Type	Description
`wikidata_id`	string	Wikidata QID, primary key
`name_en` … `name_ru`	string	Name in en, fr, de, es, pt, it, hi, zh, cs, ja, ru (native script; English fallback for the ~0.2 % without a translation)
`latitude`, `longitude`	float	WGS84 decimal degrees
`country_iso2`	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
`country_en`	string	English country name
`city_en`	string	English city name
`category`	string	One of 50 type slugs (`castle`, `museum`, `church`, `bridge`, `square`, …), derived from Wikidata `P31/P279*` with name-pattern fallback
`article_tier`	string	`structured` (rich guide format) or `legacy`
`wikidata_pagerank`	float	Wikidata PageRank (danker all-wiki run); empty for ~17 % of rows
`sitelinks`	int	Count of Wikimedia project pages linked to the entity
`url_en` … `url_ru`	string	Canonical audiala.com guide URL per language (native-script paths for hi/zh/ja/ru)

Intended uses

Ranking / recommending travel destinations (fame signals included).
Multilingual POI name lookup keyed by Wikidata QID.
Map layers of curated (guide-backed) attractions.
Joining editorial travel content to Wikidata/OSM entities.

Limitations

Not exhaustive. Coverage = Audiala's published-guide catalog; skewed toward the US, Western Europe, and India, clustered around ~1,200 cities. Absence means "no guide yet", not "not notable".
Category is best-effort (~87 % Wikidata-typed, rest heuristic; building and attraction are weak classes).
A small long tail of QID mis-mappings may remain (188 detectable ones were removed at build time). Reports welcome.
Guide URLs were 99.7 % live (HTTP 200) on a 330-URL random sample at build time; retired pages return 410.
Fame signals are snapshots and drift as Wikidata evolves.

License and attribution

Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Required attribution: "Data by Audiala — audiala.com".

Citation

@misc{audiala-places-2026,
  title  = {Audiala Places: Curated Multilingual Travel POIs},
  author = {{Audiala}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://audiala.com},
  note   = {CC BY 4.0}
}