country-to-iso

Country to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

Convert inconsistent country names and codes into ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.

The aim is support English only but some native languages are included.

Usage

import { countryToAlpha2 } from "country-to-iso";
// const { countryToAlpha2 } = require("country-to-iso");

countryToAlpha2("US"); // returns "US"
countryToAlpha2("USA"); // returns "US"
countryToAlpha2("U S A"); // returns "US"
countryToAlpha2("U.S.A"); // returns "US"
countryToAlpha2("US of A"); // returns "US"
countryToAlpha2("US and A"); // returns "US"
countryToAlpha2("United States"); // returns "US"
countryToAlpha2("United States of America"); // returns "US"
countryToAlpha2("America"); // returns "US"

Commands

Script	Description
npm run build	Builds project to lib/.
npm run seed	Takes data from the libraries countryjs and country-list and updates data/iso-alpha-*.json and data/country/*.json files.
npm run generate	Takes seeded data, makes variants of names, checks for clashes (there's no mechanism to handle clashes as it's not come up) and dumps the data to data/names.json.
npm test	Runs tests.

Adding New Country Name Variants

Update Seed Libraries

npm update --save-dev countryjs country-list
npm run seed
npm run generate
npm test

Manually Add Variants

Manually it manually to the correct data/country/*.json file and run:

npm run generate
npm test