TanvirM/restcountries

Get information about countries via a RESTful API

REST Countries v1.1.2

Get information about countries via a RESTful API http://restcountries.eu

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Pull Requests

1. Fork the master branch
2. Clone your forked repo locally
3. Create a new branch. You could use your username for the branch name
4. Make your changes on this branch. Push these changes to the repo
5. Go to the shared repo on GitHub and click on the green "compare & pull" request button
6. Click on 'create pull request'

Branches

v2

• It has new features I'm working on. It might be broken.

master

• Latest stable release (For Pull Requests, please fork this branch)

REST API

• API Version 1.1.x

Compiling and running

• https://github.com/fayder/restcountries/wiki

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• REST Countries Node.js
• REST Countries Ruby
• REST Countries Go
• world-currencies

Sources

• JSON Data is taken partly from @mledoze
• Language codes are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes
• Currencies data is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_circulating_currencies
• Area data is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area
• Population data is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population
• Gini coefficient from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality
• CSS http://bootswatch.com/spacelab/

License

Mozilla Public License MPL