Business Intelligence

GeoNames Countries

GeoNames provides standardized country-level geography and place references across all countries and territories. Country classification is important for comparing national markets, policy jurisdictions, geopolitical exposure, and international operations.

Why country-based monitoring matters

Country codes are a common backbone for international datasets, compliance workflows, macro research, and regional operations. When a product needs a stable country reference, GeoNames country codes make it easier to connect news retrieval with dashboards, models, watchlists, and downstream applications.

What Problem Does It Solve?

Country names vary by language, abbreviation, and political context. A code-based workflow gives applications a clean way to retrieve news by country without repeatedly resolving text variants. That is useful for global apps, risk teams, trade researchers, investors, insurers, public-sector analysts, and international organizations.

Who Is It For?

Developers building country risk, macro intelligence, export, travel, compliance, or ESG products.

Economists, sovereign analysts, and policy teams tracking cross-border developments.

NGOs, aid organizations, and public-sector users monitoring countries where they operate.

Writers and research teams enriching country pages, market reports, and international newsletters.

Key Benefits

Use a stable country code instead of managing multiple language and spelling variants.

Add boolean search terms to narrow country coverage to sectors, companies, policies, or events.

Retrieve headlines, briefs, or full text depending on whether the workflow is scanning or deep research.

Filter by language to support multilingual country intelligence.

Work from API, MCP, and the web app with the same core service.

Use Cases

Country dashboards for macro, political, or sovereign risk intelligence.

Export and market-entry research for businesses expanding into new regions.

Monitoring of elections, regulation, sanctions, infrastructure, or trade policy by country.

AI-generated country briefings and international market summaries.

How It Works

Store the GeoNames country codes relevant to your users, markets, or risk universe.

Query headlines, briefs, or full text and optionally combine with boolean operators.

Filter by language, then deliver the results to apps, alerts, dashboards, or AI agents.

AI and MCP Workflows

Use MCP so AI agents can retrieve news for a country before writing market updates or geopolitical notes.

Combine country retrieval with industries, companies, or products for richer international analysis.

Automate country pages and recurring briefings inside research and intelligence products.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this only for politics? No. It is also useful for trade, regulation, investment, supply chain, development, travel, and market research.

Can I search one country in multiple languages? Yes. Language filtering supports multilingual retrieval and comparison.

Can AI agents use this service directly? Yes. MCP access makes country-based retrieval available inside agent workflows.

Getting Started

Pick the GeoNames country codes that define your market, operating footprint, or watchlist. Then decide whether you need headlines for fast monitoring, briefs for richer updates, or full text for detailed analysis. API, MCP, and web app access are included. Each headline costs 1 credit, each brief costs 2 credits, and each full text result costs 5 credits. On the annual plan, you pay for only 10 months and get 12 months of access, giving you 2 months free.

Pricing

Credit-based pricing with different rates for headlines, briefs, and full-text articles.

Tier	Credits	Price	Overage Cost
Micro	200	USD 25/mo USD 250/yr	USD 0.15/credit
Starter	1,000	USD 100/mo USD 1,000/yr	USD 0.12/credit
Business	4,000	USD 250/mo USD 2,500/yr	USD 0.08/credit
Enterprise	20,000	USD 750/mo USD 7,500/yr	USD 0.05/credit

Pricing Explanation

Credit-based pricing with different rates for headlines, briefs, and full-text articles.

How Pricing Works

Credit Usage

Credits are consumed based on the type of content you receive:

Headlines:1 credit per article

Briefs (summaries):2 credits per article

Full Text:5 credits per article

How It Works

Each plan includes a monthly credit allowance
Credits are consumed when articles are delivered
Choose the content depth that matches your needs
Unused credits do not roll over to the next month

Plan Features Comparison

Feature	Micro	Starter	Business	Enterprise
Number of Queries	1	3	10	30
Email Recipients	1	5	20	100
Webhooks	1	3	10	20
Portfolio Companies	1	10	40	200

Pro Tip: Start with headlines to maximize your credit usage, and upgrade to briefs or full text for topics that need deeper analysis.