diff --git a/custom_cities.json b/custom_cities.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8701491
--- /dev/null
+++ b/custom_cities.json
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+[
+  {
+    "name": "Ipswich",
+    "country": "Australia",
+    "cc": "AU",
+    "admin": "QLD",
+    "lat": -27.61679,
+    "lon": 152.76083,
+    "tz": "Australia/Brisbane",
+    "pop": 238000,
+    "alt": ["ipswich qld", "ipswich queensland"]
+  }
+]
diff --git a/geo.py b/geo.py
index 4305e77..5f42254 100644
--- a/geo.py
+++ b/geo.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-"""City search (offline, geonamescache) + historical timezone resolution."""
+"""City search (offline, geonamescache + custom_cities.json) + historical timezone resolution."""
+import json
+import os
 from datetime import datetime
 from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
 
@@ -12,10 +14,33 @@ _countries = {c["iso"]: c["name"] for c in _gc.get_countries().values()}
 _CITY_INDEX = None
 
 
+def _custom_cities():
+    """Supplemental cities missing from the geonames 15k+ dataset (custom_cities.json)."""
+    path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "custom_cities.json")
+    if not os.path.exists(path):
+        return []
+    with open(path) as f:
+        rows = []
+        for c in json.load(f):
+            rows.append({
+                "name": c["name"],
+                "search": c["name"].lower(),
+                "alt": [a.lower() for a in c.get("alt", [])],
+                "country": c["country"],
+                "cc": c["cc"],
+                "admin": c.get("admin", ""),
+                "lat": float(c["lat"]),
+                "lon": float(c["lon"]),
+                "pop": int(c.get("pop", 0)),
+                "tz": c["tz"],
+            })
+        return rows
+
+
 def _index():
     global _CITY_INDEX
     if _CITY_INDEX is None:
-        rows = []
+        rows = _custom_cities()
         for c in _gc.get_cities().values():
             rows.append({
                 "name": c["name"],
@@ -49,7 +74,9 @@ def search_cities(q, limit=12):
     rows = (starts + contains)[:limit]
     return [{"name": r["name"], "country": r["country"], "cc": r["cc"],
              "admin": r["admin"], "lat": r["lat"], "lon": r["lon"], "tz": r["tz"],
-             "label": f'{r["name"]}, {r["country"]}'} for r in rows]
+             "label": (f'{r["name"]}, {r["admin"]}, {r["country"]}'
+                       if r["admin"] and not r["admin"].isdigit()
+                       else f'{r["name"]}, {r["country"]}')} for r in rows]
 
 
 def resolve_offset(lat, lon, year, month, day, hour, minute, tz_hint=None):