---
id: "gns_ufi"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["geo"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/gns_ufi"
---

# GNS Unique Feature Identifier (UFI) (`gns_ufi`)

> **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.

Number of a place in the GEOnet Names Server of the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which covers geographic names outside the United States. Some values are negative numbers.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^-?[1-9]\d{0,7}$
```

## Examples

- `-558821` — Zadní Chodov
- `-1352554` — Kiribati
- `-1456928` — Paris

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P2326`

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOnet_Names_Server>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2326>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: negative example, translation, detector coverage.

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