# How to? Countries dropdown populated from Google API

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**Created:** [December 3, 2023, 6:26am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/how-to-countries-dropdown-populated-from-google-api/296000 "2023-12-03T06:26:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![thethinklab.au](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/thethinklab.au/32/156912_2.png) [@thethinklab.au](https://forum.bubble.io/u/thethinklab.au)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 6:26am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/how-to-countries-dropdown-populated-from-google-api/296000/1 "2023-12-03T06:26:56Z")

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Hi all,

How would I populate a dropdown with Country names only via Google API?

I have the Google Places API connected, but no idea where to from here… Does anyone have a good tutorial or guide I could follow?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![redvivi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/redvivi/32/59955_2.png) [@redvivi](https://forum.bubble.io/u/redvivi)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 7:36am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/how-to-countries-dropdown-populated-from-google-api/296000/2 "2023-12-03T07:36:31Z")

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Ideally, your API must be initialized as “Data”.

Set the Dropdown type as text and in Dropdown datasource, use the dynamic variable “Get data from an external API”, select your API and look for the list of field corresponding to the country name (Or perhaps…each item’s country name).

But…is your intent to get the full country list? If so, no need for Google Places API.

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**Author:** ![thethinklab.au](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/thethinklab.au/32/156912_2.png) [@thethinklab.au](https://forum.bubble.io/u/thethinklab.au)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2023, 6:55am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/how-to-countries-dropdown-populated-from-google-api/296000/4 "2023-12-04T06:55:21Z")

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Does anyone have any idea how to do this? Given Google has location data, I thought it would be easy to get a situation where a user can choose:

Country (Dropdown) \> Then State/City (Drop Down \> Then Suburb

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/original/3X/2/8/2847faa74692c2ffa5d939d3dc3724cdd060d247.png) [@system](https://forum.bubble.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 6:27am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/how-to-countries-dropdown-populated-from-google-api/296000/5 "2024-02-11T06:27:32Z")

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