How to get an array of settlements in Google or Yandex by name?

Question

Google

Hello!
Sad story, in relation to the Russian expanses. I'm trying to make an automatic selection of cities and villages for my resource, but I ran into the following problem - in Russia there are a lot of clones and namesakes of the same settlements. For example, Pokrovskoye - more than 100! How to make Google or Yandex issue at least a dozen or two options when requested? It's just a stupid request Moscow -> Pokrovskoye always gives the same option. I would be grateful for any hint!

Answer 1

Found the ability to get a list of cities in api.vk.com/method/database.getCities?v=5.68&need_a...
We will try to fit it to the server.