country-region-data

country-region-data

This repo contains a static JSON file of country names, country short codes, country regions, and country region short codes. All country names and short codes are guaranteed to be unique. Similarly, all regions and region short codes within a single country are guaranteed to be unique.

I created this repo to house the raw data used for the country-region-selector, react-country-region-selector scripts. I didn't want to duplicate it in multiple places and hey, it seemed like this could be useful as a standalone repo.

Install

This package is available as an npm package. You can install via npm or yarn:

npm install country-region-data
yarn add country-region-data

Structure

See the data.json file for the data. The JSON is of the form:

[
  {
    "countryName":"Ecuador",
    "countryShortCode":"EC",
    "regions":[
      {
        "name":"Azuay",
        "shortCode":"A"
      },
      ...
    }
  },
  ... 
]

Note: the data.js file is an UMD version of the data.json file, generated automatically. The data.json file is the source of truth for the data set.

Contribute

IMPORTANT: make your changes to the data.json file, not the data.js file. The JS file is generated automatically out of the data.json file by running grunt umdify on the command line. So if you add your change to the JS file only, they will get overwritten next time that command is run.

Updates and fixes to the data is much appreciated! The state/prov abbreviations in particular are not yet complete, so the more contributors the better. Regions that need ISO3166-2 codes can be identified by having a missing shortCode property for each region. You can find them by cloning the repo, then running:

npm install
grunt findIncomplete

That'll list all countries with regions that are missing region short codes. Wikipedia has a lot of the data listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2

Data Validation

Before contributing a PR, please validate the JSON content (if you don't, Travis will catch it for you!). To do that, run the following on your command line:

npm install
grunt validate

That'll throw an error if the JSON is invalid or if some duplicate names were accidentally introduced. The error messages are pretty clear, I think.

Changelog

Note that this repo does not use semantic versioning. I realize that's pretty non-standard, but every change to this repo is a dataset change which is technically backward incompatible. So although we could be bumping the major version with each release, I think that that would be more problematic: apps can no longer use the ~ and ^ chars in their package.json files to get the latest content so updates would be manual and frequent. If people disagree about this let me know.

• 1.8.0 - July 25, 2021. Data updates: Morocco, India, Iceland, Honduras. Thanks all!
• 1.7.0 - Nov 20, 2020. Data updates: France, Norway, Mali, Croatia, Paraguau, Taiwan, Kosovo, Morocco. Thanks mohouyizme, fabrice102, nicoepp, sc0Vu, ibravoh149 and EPRenaud.
• 1.6.0 - Mar 28, 2020. Data updates. Spain data updated. Thanks gui64.
• 1.5.1 - Nov 14, 2019. Data updates. Polish and UK data updated. Thanks nguyennghi3489.
• 1.5.0 - Sept 22, 2019. Data updates. All versions changes on github will now be listed in milestones.
• 1.4.7 - Aug 26, 2019. Data updates. Ghana regions updated.
• 1.4.6 - Aug 14, 2019. Data updates: Hong Kong region shortcode added; Great Britain regions updated; typescript types.
• 1.4.5 - Nov 28, 2018. Data updates.
• 1.4.4 - July 8, 2018. Data updates.
• 1.4.3 - May 29, 2018. More data updates.
• 1.4.2 - Nov 7, 2017. Data updates.
• 1.4.1 - Nov 5, 2017. Data updates.
• 1.4.0 - July 25, 2017. Version bump, no changes.
• 1.3.6 - July 5, 2017. JS version added of the json file (thanks jayeb!!). Minor bug fixes.
• 1.3.5 - Apr 20, 2017. Misc updates. Thanks all!
• 1.3.4 - Dec 31, 2016. Mexico region update - thanks richi3f!
• 1.3.3 - Dec 22, 2016. French region fix - thanks JMartelot!
• 1.3.2 - Oct 31, 2016. Lots more region short codes (thanks again, ellenhutchings!).
• 1.3.1 - Sept 23, 2016. Fix for incorrect shortcodes in Japanese prefectures.
• 1.3.0 - July 1, 2016. Improved validation added to ensure uniqueness of country names, short codes, region names and shortcodes. Various country region additions / updates.
• 1.2.1 - Jun 7, 2016. Taiwan country name change. Travis build status added + basic JSON syntax validation.
• 1.2.0 - May 14, 2015. Lots more region short codes (again, thanks Ellen!). JSON syntax fixes.
• 1.1.1 - April 30, 2016. JSON syntax fixes.
• 1.1.0 - April 30, 2016. Looooads of new region shortcodes added thanks to ellenhutchings. Thanks, Ellen!
• 1.0.0 - April 29, 2016. initial version

License

MIT.