Geonames has all sorts of geocoding data available via a fairly extensive web services interface (in both JSON and XML!). Their data is also available for download, with a Creative Commons license.

• Determine country and (often) state/province given a latitude/longitude
• Find Wikipedia articles near a point or within a bounding box

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