District API

One district by code or name. Seat, timezones, area. US, FR, GB.

Look up one district by code or name. US county FIPS, French INSEE departments, and GB GSS districts, the same codes /point and /postal hand back. /district/guilford county and /district/edinburgh resolve on their own. Type suffixes fold, so /district/guilford works too.

A name shared across districts needs ?state= or ?country=. Washington matches 31. ?state=LA itself matches 11 ADM1 codes, so prefer louisiana or pair it with ?country=US. Codes rarely collide. When one does, you get a 400 asking for country.

Lookup

GET

api.parseapi.com/district/{code}

One district by code or name. ?state= or ?country= when it collides

curl "https://api.parseapi.com/district/08031" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

{
  "district": "08031",
  "name": "Denver County",
  "type": "county",
  "state": "CO",
  "state_name": "Colorado",
  "country": "US",
  "country_name": "United States",
  "latitude": 39.76185,
  "longitude": -104.881105,
  "population": 729019,
  "area": 400.74,
  "land_area": 396.46,
  "water_area": 4.28,
  "seat": "Denver",
  "timezone": "America/Denver",
  "timezones": [
    "America/Denver"
  ]
}

Response fields

district: District code (US county FIPS, FR INSEE department, GB GSS)
name: Name
type: County, department, district, etc.
state: State or province code
state_name: State or province name
country: ISO2 country code
country_name: Country name
latitude: Centroid latitude
longitude: Centroid longitude
population: Population estimate
area: Total area in km² (land + water, or the official total)
land_area: Land area in km² (null when the source publishes total only)
water_area: Water area in km² (null when the source publishes total only)
seat: Seat of government (county seat, prefecture, admin centre)
timezone: Primary timezone (most-populated zone)
timezones: Every IANA timezone in the district

Every district in a state instead? Use /state/{code}/districts.

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