title: Using the Google Places API to get nearby cities for a given place
body: <p>I am trying to write a Java application that, given a city and a radius, returns all the nearby <strong>cities</strong>. I thought the Google Maps API would be able to do this, but I am getting no luck with the Places API, it just returns points of interest (e.g. restaurants, ...). Is there a way of doing this with the google API or is there some other API (or way of doing this) that you would recommend?</p>