Comprehensive country code information, including ISO 3166 codes, ITU dialing codes, ISO 4217 currency codes, and many others. Provided as a Tabular Data Package.

Data

Data comes from multiple sources as follows:

Customary English short names are from Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) Project.

Note: CLDR shorter names "ZZ-alt-short" are used when available

ISO 3166 official English and French short names are from United Nations Statistics Division

ISO 4217 currency codes are from currency-iso.org

Many other country codes are from statoids.com

Special thanks to Gwillim Law for his excellent statoids.com site (some of the field descriptions are excerpted from his site), which is more up-to-date than most similar resources and is much easier to scrape than multiple Wikipedia pages.

Capital cities, languages, continents, TLDs, and geonameid are from geonames.org

EDGAR codes are from sec.gov

Preparation

This package includes Python scripts to fetch current country information and output a JSON document and CSV of combined country code information.

CSV output is provided via the in2csv and csvcut utilities from csvkit

data/country-codes.csv

Install requirements:

pip install -r scripts/requirements.pip

Run GNU Make to generate data file:

make country-codes.csv

License

This material is licensed by its maintainers under the Public Domain Dedication and License.

Nevertheless, it should be noted that this material is ultimately sourced from ISO and other standards bodies and their rights and licensing policies are somewhat unclear. As this is a short, simple database of facts there is a strong argument that no rights can subsist in this collection. However, ISO state on their site:

ISO makes the list of alpha-2 country codes available for internal use and non-commercial purposes free of charge.

This carries the implication (though not spelled out) that other uses are not permitted and that, therefore, there may be rights preventing further general use and reuse.

If you intended to use these data in a public or commercial product, please check the original sources for any specific restrictions.