ISO 3166-2 Province/State/Region Offical Breakout of Countires

[asjones987]

I am not sure what kind of scripting you have to bread this out, but what about adding the ISO 3166-2 as a seperate data file

Pulling data from the official ISO website is probably a good idea anyway as it is the official source.

https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:pub:PUB500001:en

depending on your script you cold pull AA -ZZ and get all official ISO names/countries and the breakout of countries. like province/state/region etc.

I would ask you to remove the * from the sub area code names

Tanzania
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:TZ

Subdivision category	3166-2 code	Subdivision name	Local variant	Language code	Romanization system	Parent subdivision
region	TZ-01	Arusha		sw
region	TZ-19	Coast		en
region	TZ-02	Dar es Salaam		sw
region	TZ-03	Dodoma		sw
region	TZ-27*	Geita		sw
region	TZ-04	Iringa		sw
region	TZ-05	Kagera		sw
region	TZ-06	Kaskazini Pemba		sw
region	TZ-07	Kaskazini Unguja		sw
region	TZ-28*	Katavi		sw
region	TZ-08	Kigoma		sw
region	TZ-09	Kilimanjaro		sw
region	TZ-10	Kusini Pemba		sw
region	TZ-11	Kusini Unguja		sw
region	TZ-12	Lindi		sw
region	TZ-26*	Manyara		sw
region	TZ-13	Mara		sw
region	TZ-14	Mbeya		sw
region	TZ-15	Mjini Magharibi		sw
region	TZ-16	Morogoro		sw
region	TZ-17	Mtwara		sw
region	TZ-18	Mwanza		sw
region	TZ-29*	Njombe		sw
region	TZ-06	Pemba North		en
region	TZ-10	Pemba South		en
region	TZ-19	Pwani		sw
region	TZ-20	Rukwa		sw
region	TZ-21	Ruvuma		sw
region	TZ-22	Shinyanga		sw
region	TZ-30*	Simiyu		sw
region	TZ-23	Singida		sw
region	TZ-31	Songwe		en
region	TZ-31	Songwe		sw
region	TZ-24	Tabora		sw
region	TZ-25	Tanga		sw
region	TZ-07	Zanzibar North		en
region	TZ-11	Zanzibar South		en
region	TZ-15	Zanzibar West		en

[stefangabos]

i can't crawl that source. it's made with react or something.

[asjones987]

Wikipeida does not have them all. Not finding a good current comprehensive list on most other standards sites.... there is this one though.
https://www.ip2location.com/free/iso3166-2

[stefangabos]

that looks decent and i can set it up so that whenever there's an update i could download, unzip and parse the file
i'll have an update on this soon
thanks for finding the source!

[stefangabos]

so, i parsed that file and was about to commit it when i realized that it contains mostly names in english and not in local language...
maybe there's an even better list somewhere?

[asjones987]

Not finding a good other list.... also realized the ip2location list does not have the subcategory type.....

[stefangabos]

is anybody using subcategories?

[stefangabos]

i think what most people want is the list from ip2location

[stefangabos]

Here's another list. They have subcategories also - see here for Hungary, and they seem to have proper local names with accents and everything. It also means that I'll have to include subcategories, as you mentioned.