Thanks, Jaime, for your recommendation.
If I understand the result of [1] correctly, there are around 3.5 million
pages with a GeoNames property specified on Wikidata. I'm sure some of them
are redirects, or not cities, etc. But still, going through millions of
pages through API calls of 1000 at a
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I am not 100% sure there is a perfect way to do what you want by querying
the metadata databases (I assume that is what you mean with query)- I don't
think that data is metadata, but content itself, which is not on the
metadata databases.
Calling the wikidata query service is probably what you wan