i18n-iso-countries

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i18n for ISO 3166-1 country codes. We support Alpha-2, Alpha-3 and Numeric codes from 'Wikipedia: Officially assigned code elements'

Installing

Install it using npm: npm install i18n-iso-countries

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");

If you use i18n-iso-countries with Node.js, you are done. If you use the package in a browser environment, you have to register the languages you want to use to minimize the file size.

// Support french & english languages.
countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/fr.json"));

Code to Country

Get the name of a country by its ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2, Alpha-3 or Numeric code

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log("US (Alpha-2) => " + countries.getName("US", "en", {select: "official"})); // United States of America
console.log("US (Alpha-2) => " + countries.getName("US", "de", {select: "official"})); // Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
console.log("USA (Alpha-3) => " + countries.getName("USA", "en", {select: "official"})); // United States of America
console.log("USA (Numeric) => " + countries.getName("840", "en", {select: "official"})); // United States of America

Get all names by their ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 code

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log(countries.getNames("en", {select: "official"})); // { 'AF': 'Afghanistan', 'AL': 'Albania', [...], 'ZM': 'Zambia', 'ZW': 'Zimbabwe' }

Supported languages (ISO 639-1)

In case you want to add new language, please refer ISO 639-1 table.

af: Afrikaans
am: Amharic
ar: Arabic
az: Azerbaijani
be: Belorussian
bg: Bulgarian
bn: Bengali
bs: Bosnian
ca: Catalan
cs: Czech
da: Danish
de: German
en: English
es: Spanish
et: Estonian
fa: Persian
fi: Finnish
fr: French
gl: Galician
el: Greek
ha: Hausa
he: Hebrew
hi: Hindi
hr: Croatian
hu: Hungarian
hy: Armenian
is: Icelandic
it: Italian
id: Indonesian
ja: Japanese
ka: Georgian
kk: Kazakh
km: Khmer
ko: Korean
ku: Kurdish
ky: Kyrgyz
lt: Lithuanian
lv: Latvian
mk: Macedonian
ml: Malayalam
mn: Mongolian
ms: Malay
nb: Norwegian Bokmål
nl: Dutch
nn: Norwegian Nynorsk
no: Norwegian
pl: Polish
ps: Pashto
pt: Portuguese
ro: Romanian
ru: Russian
sd: Sindhi
sk: Slovak
sl: Slovene
so: Somali
sq: Albanian
sr: Serbian
sv: Swedish
ta: Tamil
tg: Tajik
th: Thai
tr: Turkish
tt: Tatar
ug: Uyghur
uk: Ukrainian
ur: Urdu
uz: Uzbek
zh: Chinese
vi: Vietnamese

List of ISO 639-1 codes

Country to Code

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log(
  "United States of America => " +
    countries.getAlpha2Code("United States of America", "en")
);
// United States of America => US

console.log(
  "United States of America => " +
    countries.getAlpha3Code("United States of America", "en")
);
// United States of America => USA

Codes

Convert Alpha-3 to Alpha-2 code

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log(
  "USA (Alpha-3) => " + countries.alpha3ToAlpha2("USA") + " (Alpha-2)"
);
// USA (Alpha-3) => US (Alpha-2)

Convert Numeric to Alpha-2 code

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log(
  "840 (Numeric) => " + countries.numericToAlpha2("840") + " (Alpha-2)"
);
// 840 (Numeric) => US (Alpha-2)

Convert Alpha-2 to Alpha-3 code

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log("DE (Alpha-2) => " + countries.alpha2ToAlpha3("DE") + " (Alpha-3)");
// DE (Alpha-2) => DEU (Alpha-3)

Convert Numeric to Alpha-3 code

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log(
  "840 (Numeric) => " + countries.numericToAlpha3("840") + " (Alpha-3)"
);
// 840 (Numeric) => USA (Alpha-3)

Convert Alpha-3 to Numeric code

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log(countries.alpha3ToNumeric("SWE"));
// 752

Convert Alpha-2 to Numeric code

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log(countries.alpha2ToNumeric("SE"));
// 752

Get all Alpha-2 codes

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log(countries.getAlpha2Codes());
// { 'AF': 'AFG', 'AX': 'ALA', [...], 'ZM': 'ZMB', 'ZW': 'ZWE' }

Get all Alpha-3 codes

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log(countries.getAlpha3Codes());
// { 'AFG': 'AF', 'ALA': 'AX', [...], 'ZMB': 'ZM', 'ZWE': 'ZW' }

Get all Numeric codes

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log(countries.getNumericCodes());
// { '004': 'AF', '008': 'AL', [...], '887': 'YE', '894': 'ZM' }

Validate country code

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log(
  countries.isValid("US"),
  countries.isValid("USA"),
  countries.isValid("XX")
);
// true, true, false

Contribution

To add a language:

add a json file under langs/
add the language to the data object in entry-node.js at the top
add language to section Supported languages in README.md
add language to keywords in package.json
run npm test to make sure that tests are passing
open a PR on GitHub

You can check codes here: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#home

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