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+# CURRENTLY UNMAINTAINED - contact coderholic (coderholic@users.noreply.github.com) to take over maintainership of this project #
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 django-cities provides you with place related models (eg. Country, Region, City) and data (from [GeoNames](http://www.geonames.org/)) that can be used in your django projects.
 
 This package officially supports all currently supported versions of Python/Django: