jcmordan/country-json

Helpful world data of each country in JSON format

country>json

A simple but useful data of the world (by country) each in JSON format.

Download

Using npm

$ npm install country-json

Using git

$ git clone https://github.com/samayo/country-json

Using composer

$ composer require samayo/country-json

Usage

Examples using various languages to integrate/display the data.

PHP

<?php 

$file = file_get_contents("./src/country-capital-city.json");
$data = json_decode($file, true); 

foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
  var_dump($value); // { country: 'Afghanistan', city: 'Kabul' ..}
} 

Node.js

var fs = require('fs');

fs.readFile('./src/country-capital-city.json', 'utf8', function(err, cities) {

  try {
    cities = JSON.parse(cities);
  } catch (e) {
    console.log('error parsing JSON', e);
  }

  console.log(cities[0]); // { country: 'Afghanistan', city: 'Kabul' }

});

Ruby

require 'json'

file = File.read('./src/country-capital-city.json')
json = JSON.parse(file)

puts json[0] # {"country"=>"Afghanistan", "city"=>"Kabul"}

Python

import yaml

with open('./src/country-capital-city.json') as json_file:
    for line in yaml.safe_load(json_file):
        print line # {'country': 'Afghanistan', 'city': 'Kabul'}

Golang

package main

import (
  "encoding/json"
  "fmt"
  "io/ioutil"
)

func main() {
  data, err := ioutil.ReadFile("path/to/country-capital-city.json")
  if err != nil {
    panic(err)
  }

  var entries []struct{ Country, City string }
  if err = json.Unmarshal(data, &entries); err != nil {
    panic(err)
  }

  for _, entry := range entries {
    fmt.Println(entry.Country, entry.City)  # {'country': 'Afghanistan', 'city': 'Kabul'}
  }
}

Data

• Countries by Name
• Countries by Abbreviation
• Countries by Average Male Height
• Countries by Alphabetical Letters
• Countries by Coastline Length
• Countries by Average Land Elevation
• Countries by National Dish (official/proposed)
• Countries by International Calling Code
• Countries by Capital City
• Countries by Continental Location
• Countries by Currency Name & Code
• Countries by TLD
• Countries by Flag in base64 format (experimental)
• Countries by Geo-Coordinates
• Countries by Government Type
• Countries by Independence Year
• Countries by ISO Code
• Countries by Landlocked Status
• Countries by Life Expectancy
• Countries by National Animal/Plant
• Countries by Population
• Countries by Population Density
• Countries by Region Location
• Countries by Surface Area
• Countries by Yearly avg Temperature
• Countries by Barcode Prefix

Contribution

Feel free to send a PR anytime, any help or correction is appreciated.
For non-minor changes about country (ex: name, languages, capital-city, independence date..), please include a source, if possible.

Resources

• Processing country.json data with ramda-cli