Get definite City name in Google maps reverse geocoding

Question

Using the Google Maps Geocoding API, i\'m able to get the formatted address for a particular coordinate. To get the exact city name, I\'m doing the following:

Answer 1

For what it's worth, I was looking for something similar and am trying https://plus.codes/

If you strip the encoded bit it yields a fairly consistent city, state, country name:

const extractCityName = latlng => {
  googleMapsClient.reverseGeocode({ latlng }, (err, response) => {
    if (!err) {
      return response.json.plus_code.compound_code.split(' ').slice(1).join(' ');
    }
  });
};


// examples: 

console.log(extractCityName(40.6599718,-73.9817292));
// New York, NY, USA

console.log(extractCityName(37.386052, -122.083851));
// Mountain View, CA, USA

console.log(extractCityName(51.507351, -0.127758));
// Westminster, London, UK