---
id: "birthplace"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["persons", "pii", "geo"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 75
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/birthplace"
---

# Place of birth (`birthplace`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

The place where a person was born, usually a city or town, often followed by the region or country, such as "Montreal, QC, CAN". Together with a name and a birth date it helps to identify a person, so it is personal data.

- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Person related (persons), Personally identifiable information (pii), Geographic identifiers (geo)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)

## Examples

- `Montreal, QC, CAN` — city, province and country code
- `Lyon, France` — city and country

## Mappings

- dpv: `pd:BirthPlace`
- schema_org: `birthPlace`
- sherlock: `birth Place`
- wikidata: `P19`

## Supported by tools

- `doduo`
- `sato`
- `sherlock`

## Translations

- ru: Место рождения

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_of_birth>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P19>
- schema.org: <https://schema.org/birthPlace>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: regexp, negative example.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/birthplace.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/persons/birthplace.yaml>