reverse geocode a set of co-ordinates

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Published on 2010-04-09T23:36:04Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 23:43 UTC
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I have sets of co-ordinates in the following format

(-33.9,18.6)

How do I go about getting the name of the nearest town or Country for those co-ords? I'm guessing it will involve Javascript, but am happy to also use PHP if appropriate?

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