Cities Not Displaying in the View

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Cities Not Displaying in the View

Published: 12 Mar 2013
Last Modified Date: 28 Dec 2018

Issue

Some cities are not displaying automatically in the view.

Environment

Tableau Desktop

Resolution

Option 1

Upgrade to Tableau Desktop 10.4 or later. For more information, see Upgrade Tableau Desktop.

Option 2

You can also use custom geocoding to import the cities that are not automatically recognized. For more information, refer to the Custom Geocoding topic in the Desktop Help.

Cause

In Tableau 10.3 and earlier only cities with a population of 15,000 or more were included in Tableau's database of recognized cities. For more information, see Types of geographic roles in Tableau Help.