openbookprices/country-data

Country related data such as ISO codes, currencies etc

country-data's Issues

Support two missing modern currencies, CNH and EEK

Propose the addition of these two:

{
    code: 'CNH',
    decimals: 2,
    name: 'Chinese yuan (offshore)',
},
{
    code: 'EEK',
    decimals: 2,
    name: 'Estonian kroon',
}

The CNH entry is justified by this discussion of how Chinese currency works on international markets.

And here is a reference to the Estonian Kroon

Name Popularity Index

Assuming that multiple versions of country names become available, it would be nice to include a popularity index, e.g. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%22Lithuania%22%2C%20%22Republic%20of%20Lithuania%22&cmpt=q&tz=.

Knowing which name is more popular, together with language property, would be useful when determining which name to choose to display in which language. This index could be updated once a week or so using an automated script.

I am happy to contribute a library that would abstract querying of the data (assuming such does not exist already).

Make results read-only to prevent accidental modification

See http://stackoverflow.com/a/15844287/5349 for possible approach.

Is introducing different behaviour between strict and normal mode worse that allowing modifications to the data?

'Flemish' language entry is overriding 'Dutch' language

import countryData from 'country-data';
console.log(countryData.languages.nl.name); //outputs Flemish instead of Dutch

This is because the languages.csv file has the entries Dutch and Flemish with identical values

alpha2=nl

alpha3=nld

bibliographic=dut

I suggest removing the Flemish entry since Flemish it's considered not a language but rather an adjective/thesaurus to define Dutch dialects.

Dutch is the correct English word to define the Dutch language spoken in both The Netherlands and Belgium.

I can prepare a Pull Request with the Flemish entry removed from the languages.csv file.

Add calling codes?

Perhaps you could merge with the support we have here at https://github.com/getprove/node-country-codes. I used cheerio to crawl a page that had the data.

provide a bit more info on what reserved and assigned stand for

As per request in #47 (comment)

United Kingdom appears twice (under GB and UK)

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#GB suggests that GB is correct and UK is not, so I think that removing the UK is good enough.

Would you like a PR?

Could you add some info as to how to use it with React JS?

the full question on: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43144036/in-react-how-to-convert-country-code-to-country-name-using-country-data

It is:

I thought I could do

npm install --save country-data

and then in the code:

import CountryData from "country-data";

and use

CountryData.countries["TW"]

to get the country data, and

CountryData.countries["TW"].name

to get the name. But CountryData.countries["TW"] gets undefined already. How can it be done?

Usage with webpack?

Hi,
I am not getting how to use it with webpack&c:

import CountryData from 'country-data';
CountryData.lookup.countries({currencies: 'EUR'});

generates:
Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: data.filter is not a function(…)

Am I doing something wrong?

work-in-progress

Hi there,

I took a look at the WIP to see if I could notch it off the list and it raised a q's.

How can you have a dialing code for a region?
Are the codes correct? I could not correlate the data to any meaningful source. Could you provide this?

There are also also a few regions missing.

Happy to contrib if I can get some data.

Region grouping removed?

Hey why did you guys remove the grouping by region such as Europe ?
It was really handy grabbing all European countries at once...

Malaysia Country not on the List

I just found out maybe Malaysia is not on the ALL list, but available in the object.
You may consider as well some countries other than malaysia.

So far so good this library is awesome.

Get all languages

Hello,
I am working on a translation management system and therefore I need all available languages and it's ISO codes. However this list var languageList = languages.all contains entries like:

alpha2=, alpha3=zxx, bibliographic=, name=No linguistic content

alpha2=, alpha3=zxx, bibliographic=, name=Not applicable

alpha2=, alpha3=und, bibliographic=, name=Undetermined

alpha2=, alpha3=gmh, bibliographic=, name=German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500)

All these entries are obviously very irrelevant for my purpose. Instead I want to get English (USA), English (GB) and such. Is there a way to get only the official languages including differences like American vs British English?

Rename 'Greek, Modern (1453-)' to 'Greek'

import countryData from 'country-data';
console.log(countryData.languages.el.name); //outputs Greek, Modern (1453-) instead of Greek

The name of the modern Greek language should simply be Greek instead of Greek, Modern (1453-).

All other languages have modern and ancient versions of them. We do not constantly specify Modern English, Modern German when we refer to English and German. The same should be true for Greek.

'Vietnam' country name spelling

At countries.csv line 253
Why use Viet Nam instead of more common Vietnam ?
If it can be updated, I should submit PR.

Thanks!

United Kingdom listed twice (but different country codes)

United Kingdom,GB,GBR,,+44,GBP,🇬🇧,GBR,"eng,cor,gle,gla,cym",assigned
United Kingdom,UK,,.uk,,GBP,,,"eng,cor,gle,gla,cym",reserved

Also, I believe the official name is "United Kingdom of Great Britain". Perhaps you can assign this name to the "GB" country code, so users who search for "Great Britain" will still get a result.

add continents

currently the root of the data is region. id like to add continent data as the root but think I should run it by you before making a PR

US states

Saint Barthélemy

Hello,

Why this country has é symbol?
Usually, we have Saint Barthelemy spelling every time.

Maybe we need to improve the system and add another name.

Thx, Vitaly

obsolete countries

These countries are obsolete: ["AFI","ATB","BUR","BYS","CSK","SCG","CTE","DDR","DHY","GEL","HVO","JTN","MID","NHB","ATN","NTZ","PCI","PUS","PCZ","RHO","SKM","TMP","VDR","WAK","YMD","YUG","ZAR"]

e.g. DDR - East Germany

Please update the list.

Add search helpers

It would be extremely useful to have some common lookups in the library. For instance I needed to get a alpha3 based on country name. I ended up writing something like this:

 function findAlpha3(name) {
      for(var code in countries) {
          var country = countries[code];

          if(country.name == name && code) return country.alpha3;
      }

      if(name == 'United Kingdom') return 'GBR';
  }

I would much rather write something like countries.find({name: 'Germany'}).alpha3.

Alpha3 ATB begins with space

In https://github.com/OpenBookPrices/country-data/blob/master/data/countries.json#L526 alpha3 should be "ATB" and not " ATB"

Country data is missing after install

Have you ever seen this? I npm install --save country-data then var countries = require('country-data').countries;, and countries.all looks like {}.

Malaysia has only english in languages

Malay is missing for Malaysia (countries.json) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay_language)

  {
    "alpha2": "MY",
    "alpha3": "MYS",
    "countryCallingCodes": [
      "+60"
    ],
    "currencies": [
      "MYR"
    ],
    "ioc": "MAS",
    "languages": [
      "eng"
    ],
    "name": "Malaysia",
    "status": "assigned"
  },

Belorussian currency is outdated

country-data/data/currencies.json

Line 149 in 011dbb6

"name": "Belarusian ruble",

The new currency is BYN (Br 1.00)

Search by IOC code

It would be nice to implement a search by IOC code as well as the alpha2 and alpha3 code.
Maybe implement as countries.IOC.code

How to Get the Current 195/6 Countries

Multiple sources online report that the current number of countries is 195 or 196 if you include Taiwan. Is there a way to return a list of just these countries? Or must I maintain a separate array of countries in my app and query based on that?

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0932875.html

Add phone number length

Any plans to include valid phone number lengths by country? Are you open to contributions? My plan would be to port the data already available in node-phone to country-data.

I don't know if it would be too hard to maintain that information up to date.

The name of is outdated SZ

As of the most recent ISO change, the name of SZ has changed.

alpha3 missing for United Kingdom

That should be GBR.

Internationalization support?

Do you plan to add internationalization support to your package?
I think it may be very useful for non-english development targets.

missing country 'XK' which is 'Kosovo'

thanks for the great lib. Missing one "country" (I know its borderline cuz its a temp one):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#XK

currency LTL is not valid anymore

Hi, while Lithuania already has EUR instead of LTL, LTL is not valid anymore.

2015 January 1st LTL was replaced by EUR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania

countries.SK returning Sikkim instead of Slovakia since 0.0.25

Since 0.0.25, the 2-digit ISO code SK had changed from Slovakia to Sikkim:

0.0.24

> require('country-data').countries.SK.name
'Slovakia'

0.0.25

> require('country-data').countries.SK.name
'Sikkim'

According to Wikipedia, SK still belongs to Slovakia and SK was actually assigned to Sikkim before 1993. Maybe this change was unintentional?

Deprecate this package

As I understand this package is not maintained anymore (and the author didn't care to find a new maintainer). Still the number of stars and npm downloads can trick a user to consider this to be a reliable library.

Its a good idea for the author to mark the package as 'deprecated' and recommend another (maintained) package instead.

IR numeric is wrong

IR numeric is 98 but you set 364

Country Flags?

The level of detail in this library is great! The only thing missing that I can see would be SVG flags for each country. Is this a possibility?

case insensitive lookup

Having no case preference would be nice:

e.g
lookup({name: 'Antigua and Barbuda'})
doesn't find a match because the source data uses 'And'

I have a branch cut with a fix for this if you want to incorporate it.

Alternative names

The lookup using remote sources will often fail because rarely does anyone use the official name (e.g. Russian Federation vs Russian and People's Republic of China vs China).

CountryData.lookup.countries({name: 'Russia'}); // Russian Federation
CountryData.lookup.countries({name: 'China'}); // People's Republic of China
CountryData.lookup.countries({name: 'USA'}); // The United States of America, United States, America
CountryData.lookup.countries({name: 'Iran'}); // Persia, Islamic Republic of Iran
CountryData.lookup.countries({name: 'Vietnam'}); // Socialist Republic of Vietnam

It would make sense to have "name_aka" field in JSON that would describe common variations.

Optional sorting

var countries = require('country-data').countries;
console.log( countries.all );

Should be sorted alphabetically. Now sort is uncompleted

Some corrections

Some observations to improve countries.json:

• alpha2: "IC" and alpha2: "EA" are not countries. Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla are Spain's regions.
• alpha2: "GB" and alpha2: "UK" are the same country. The correct ISO Code is GB.
• alpha2: "EU" isn't a country (it's a politico-economic union of 28 countries).

interesting library

https://libphonenumber.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javascript/i18n/phonenumbers/

Issue in fetching flag emoji

Can you give an example which would allow me to fetch country flag emoji

regions.js is missing North America

You've got many countries listed elsewhere, but no Canada or US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_North_America

Is this library maintained?

This is a great little library, but it's been almost a year since the last release and some issues are stacking up.

Do you still plan to maintain this library?

New Eurozone Region

Just to inform you that I have just made a project using a fork of the raw data with a few formatting changes, but the main change as far as the data is concerned is a new 'eurozone' region grouping:

https://github.com/vijinho/ISO-Country-Data/blob/master/regions.json#L474

Data about Vietnam is non-existent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam

How to distinguish between Currency and Currency Type

Hi All,

First of all thanks for the country data which you made it . I have some css requirement which i am not able to distinguish here. My issue is as below.

I am basically from INDIA and which I saw my country has INR as currency and Currency Type is Rupees. So like Database should have this as well.

Country :- INDIA , Currency :- INR, Currency Type :- Rupee
Country :- BANGALADESH Currency :- Currency :- BDT Type :- TAKA
Country :- Pakistan Currency :- PKR, Currency Type :- Rupee

Please advise.

Thanks

Bower Support

Would be nice to load this lib via bower.

Mexico Country Calling Codes

Following UIT-T E.164 Mexico Country Code is 52.

Why do you have two values 52 and 521 as countryCallingCodes in countries.json?