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, seems like this it could be useful to people as a standalone.

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

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

Contribute

The state/prov abbreviations are not yet complete, so pull requests welcome! 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

• 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.