database simple performance question

Hello

i need to build a database of people with thoses data

name
first name
nation of birth
date of birth
city of birth
region of birth
country of birth

nation of death
date of death
city of death
region of deayth
country of death


it will hold record for 1000 people and be queried very often to check how many people originate from a country, are born a certain year etc...

what is the best way to store country and regions to optimize the search. Should it be in this table stored as text or in another table , leaving only the city in this table ?

tks

 

With only a 1000 entries, it really won't matter much, but create one table with cities, one for regions etc, and the have a main table where you reference these by id.