Any "open source" geograhy database?

Hi,

Does one really need to buy the ip2location or similiar database, if you simply just want a list of countries, regions, and cities for your site? (not of this ip to location, latitude/longitude stuff)?

Aint there a place this data is available for download?

I made 5 tables. Continents>SubContinents>Countries>Regions>Cities
Got them all populated, but seems my source (from e...uhum..Mule) was wrong cuz just in the two countries I know (China and South Africa) I found mistakes in the cities allready.

Didn't I give you one last year?

What about this, first search result: http://software77.net/cgi-bin/ip-country/geo-ip.pl