i18n-iso-countries

i18n for ISO 3166-1 country codes. We support Alpha-2, Alpha-3 and Numeric codes from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1#Officially_assigned_code_elements

Installing

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

This library requires that String#padStart is available. If your environment does not support this method, you will need to polyfill it.

If used in a browser environment, you will need to manually install the local you wish to support.

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

// 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 it's ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2, Alpha-3 or Numeric code

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
console.log("US (Alpha-2) => " + countries.getName("US", "en")); // United States of America
console.log("US (Alpha-2) => " + countries.getName("US", "de")); // Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
console.log("USA (Alpha-3) => " + countries.getName("USA", "en")); // United States of America
console.log("USA (Numeric) => " + countries.getName("840", "en")); // United States of America

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

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
console.log(countries.getNames("en")); // { 'AF': 'Afghanistan', 'AL': 'Albania', [...], 'ZM': 'Zambia', 'ZW': 'Zimbabwe' }

Supported languages (ISO 639-1)

• ar: Arabic
• az: Azerbaijani
• be: Belorussian
• bg: Bulgarian
• bs: Bosnian
• cs: Czech
• da: Danish
• de: German
• en: English
• es: Spanish
• et: Estonian
• fa: Persian
• fi: Finnish
• fr: French
• el: Greek
• he: Hebrew
• hr: Croatian
• hu: Hungarian
• hy: Armenian
• it: Italian
• ja: Japanese
• ka: Georgian
• kk: Kazakh
• ko: Korean
• ky: Kyrgyz
• lt: Lithuanian
• lv: Latvian
• mk: Macedonian
• mn: Mongolian
• nb: Norwegian Bokmål
• nl: Dutch
• nn: Norwegian Nynorsk
• pl: Polish
• pt: Portuguese
• ro: Romanian
• ru: Russian
• sk: Slovak
• sl: Slovene
• sr: Serbian
• sv: Swedish
• tr: Turkish
• uk: Ukrainian
• uz: Uzbek
• zh: Chinese

List of ISO 639-1 codes

Country to Code

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
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");
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");
console.log("840 (Numeric) => " + countries.numericToAlpha2("840") + " (Alpha-2)");
// 840 (Numeric) => US (Alpha-2)

Convert Alpha-2 to Alpha-3 coe

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
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");
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");
console.log(countries.alpha3ToNumeric("SWE"));
// 752

Convert Alpha-2 to Numeric code

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
console.log(countries.alpha2ToNumeric("SE"));
// 752

Get all Alpha-2 codes

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
console.log(countries.getAlpha2Codes());
// { 'AF': 'AFG', 'AX': 'ALA', [...], 'ZM': 'ZMB', 'ZW': 'ZWE' }

Get all Alpha-3 codes

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
console.log(countries.getAlpha3Codes());
// { 'AFG': 'AF', 'ALA': 'AX', [...], 'ZMB': 'ZM', 'ZWE': 'ZW' }

Get all Numeric codes

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
console.log(countries.getNumericCodes());
// { '004': 'AF', '008': 'AL', [...], '887': 'YE', '894': 'ZM' }

Contribution

To add a language:

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