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I am interested to list all the cities of earth which end with the string "video", like "Montevideo"

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    $\begingroup$ Try Select[CityData[], StringMatchQ[CommonName[#], "*video"] &]. $\endgroup$
    – J. M.'s persistent exhaustion ♦
    Jul 27, 2017 at 13:17
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    $\begingroup$ It takes infinite amount of time to calculate... Something is wrong with those operations... $\endgroup$
    – Boti
    Jul 27, 2017 at 13:47
  • $\begingroup$ Unfortunately, you are right that it can get slow, especially if your Internet connection is not very good. $\endgroup$
    – J. M.'s persistent exhaustion ♦
    Jul 28, 2017 at 1:41

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Get the world-wide cities database from http://download.maxmind.com/download/worldcities/worldcitiespop.txt.gz

Unzip. You should get almost 3.2 million cities.

list=Import[ToFileName[{$HomeDirectory,"Downloads"},"worldcitiespop.txt"],"CSV"][[All,{1,3}]];

Select[list,StringMatchQ[#[[2]],StringExpression[__,"video"] ]&]//TableForm

I've kept the first column, so you can see the country. The last columns contain the coordinates, in case you want to do some geo plots with that.

But that takes several seconds and leaves out solutions like "...vidéo" and "Monte Video" and "... Montevideo Chico", which the o/p is presumably interested in as well. The above takes "end with the string 'video'" literally. You're must faster not using M at all for this and get all 41 cases (not just 35, as above) with a one-liner in less than a second:

LC_CTYPE=iso-8859-1 grep video worldcitiespop.txt

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