i18n-iso-countries

i18n-iso-countries

i18n for ISO 3166-1 country codes. We support Alpha-2, Alpha-3 and Numeric codes from 'Wikipedia: Officially assigned code elements'

Installing

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

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

If you use i18n-iso-countries with Node.js, you are done. If you use the package in a browser environment, you have to register the languages you want to use to minimize the file size.

// 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 its ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2, Alpha-3 or Numeric code

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
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 aliases/short name using select

// Some countries have alias/short names defined. `select` is used to control which
// name will be returned.
console.log("GB (select: official) => " + countries.getName("GB", "en", {select: "official"})); // United Kingdom
console.log("GB (select: alias) => " + countries.getName("GB", "en", {select: "alias"})); // UK
console.log("GB (select: all) => " + countries.getName("GB", "en", {select: "all"})); // ["United Kingdom", "UK", "Great Britain"]
// Countries without an alias will always return the offical name
console.log("LT (select: official) => " + countries.getName("LT", "en", {select: "official"})); // Lithuania
console.log("LT (select: alias) => " + countries.getName("LT", "en", {select: "alias"})); // Lithuania
console.log("LT (select: all) => " + countries.getName("LT", "en", {select: "all"})); // ["Lithuania"]

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

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log(countries.getNames("en", {select: "official"})); // { 'AF': 'Afghanistan', 'AL': 'Albania', [...], 'ZM': 'Zambia', 'ZW': 'Zimbabwe' }

Supported languages (ISO 639-1)

In case you want to add new language, please refer ISO 639-1 table.

• af: Afrikaans
• am: Amharic
• ar: Arabic
• az: Azerbaijani
• be: Belorussian
• bg: Bulgarian
• bn: Bengali
• br: Breton
• bs: Bosnian
• ca: Catalan
• cs: Czech
• cy: Cymraeg
• da: Danish
• de: German
• dv: Dhivehi
• en: English
• es: Spanish
• et: Estonian
• eu: Basque
• fa: Persian
• fi: Finnish
• fr: French
• ga: Irish
• gl: Galician
• el: Greek
• ha: Hausa
• he: Hebrew
• hi: Hindi
• hr: Croatian
• hu: Hungarian
• hy: Armenian
• is: Icelandic
• it: Italian
• id: Indonesian
• ja: Japanese
• ka: Georgian
• kk: Kazakh
• km: Khmer
• ko: Korean
• ku: Kurdish
• ky: Kyrgyz
• lt: Lithuanian
• lv: Latvian
• mk: Macedonian
• ml: Malayalam
• mn: Mongolian
• mr: Marathi
• ms: Malay
• mt: Maltese
• nb: Norwegian Bokmål
• nl: Dutch
• nn: Norwegian Nynorsk
• no: Norwegian
• pl: Polish
• ps: Pashto
• pt: Portuguese
• ro: Romanian
• ru: Russian
• sd: Sindhi
• sk: Slovak
• sl: Slovene
• so: Somali
• sq: Albanian
• sr: Serbian
• sv: Swedish
• sw: Swahili
• ta: Tamil
• tg: Tajik
• th: Thai
• tr: Turkish
• tt: Tatar
• ug: Uyghur
• uk: Ukrainian
• ur: Urdu
• uz: Uzbek
• zh: Chinese
• vi: Vietnamese

List of ISO 639-1 codes

Get all supported languages (ISO 639-1)

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
console.log("List of supported languages => " + countries.getSupportedLanguages());
// List of supported languages => ["cy", "dv", "sw", "eu", "af", "am", ...]

Country to Code

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
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");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
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");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log("840 (Numeric) => " + countries.numericToAlpha2("840") + " (Alpha-2)");
// 840 (Numeric) => US (Alpha-2)

Convert Alpha-2 to Alpha-3 code

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
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");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
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");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log(countries.alpha3ToNumeric("SWE"));
// 752

Convert Alpha-2 to Numeric code

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log(countries.alpha2ToNumeric("SE"));
// 752

Get all Alpha-2 codes

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log(countries.getAlpha2Codes());
// { 'AF': 'AFG', 'AX': 'ALA', [...], 'ZM': 'ZMB', 'ZW': 'ZWE' }

Get all Alpha-3 codes

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log(countries.getAlpha3Codes());
// { 'AFG': 'AF', 'ALA': 'AX', [...], 'ZMB': 'ZM', 'ZWE': 'ZW' }

Get all Numeric codes

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log(countries.getNumericCodes());
// { '004': 'AF', '008': 'AL', [...], '887': 'YE', '894': 'ZM' }

Validate country code

var countries = require("i18n-iso-countries");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-iso-countries/langs/en.json"));
console.log(
  countries.isValid("US"),
  countries.isValid("USA"),
  countries.isValid("XX")
);
// true, true, false

Contribution

To add a language:

• add a json file under langs/
• add the language to the list in supportedLocales.json at the top
• add language to section Supported languages in README.md
• add language to keywords in package.json
• run npm run lint and npm test
• open a PR on GitHub

You can check codes here: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#home