With the included stylesheet and sprite image (based on famfamfam's flag icons), it's easy to automatically show the correct flag in front of any name or country anywhere on your site. Long lists load faster due to the use of a sprite image.
The list of world countries is based on the list of ISO 3166 codes for countries in existence at the time of last update:
http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/index.html
The official list is constantly receiving updates, so the list might not be 100% accurate.
###Similar projects A similar project can be found here (text under "Country list" has been borrowed from that project as well): http://code.google.com/p/django-countries/
Exported from code.google.com/p/csscountrycodes