Comprehensive country code information, including ISO 3166 codes, ITU dialing
codes, ISO 4217 currency codes, and many others. Provided as a
Tabular Data Package
.
Data
Data comes from multiple sources as follows:
Customary English short names are from
Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) Project
.
Note: CLDR shorter names "ZZ-alt-short" are used when available
ISO 3166 official English and French short names are from
United Nations Statistics Division
ISO 4217 currency codes are from
currency-iso.org
Many other country codes are from
statoids.com
Special thanks to Gwillim Law for his excellent
statoids.com
site (some of the field descriptions
are excerpted from his site), which is more up-to-date than most similar
resources and is much easier to scrape than multiple Wikipedia pages.
Capital cities, languages, continents, TLDs, and geonameid are from
geonames.org
EDGAR codes are from
sec.gov
Preparation
This package includes Python scripts to fetch current country information
and output a JSON document and CSV of combined country code information.
CSV output is provided via the
in2csv
and
csvcut
utilities from
csvkit
data/country-codes.csv
Install requirements:
pip install -r scripts/requirements.pip
Run GNU Make to generate data file:
make country-codes.csv
License
This material is licensed by its maintainers under the Public Domain Dedication
and License.
Nevertheless, it should be noted that this material is ultimately sourced from
ISO and other standards bodies and their rights and licensing policies are somewhat
unclear. As this is a short, simple database of facts there is a strong argument
that no rights can subsist in this collection. However, ISO state on
their
site
:
ISO makes the list of alpha-2 country codes available for internal use and
non-commercial purposes free of charge.
This carries the implication (though not spelled out) that other uses are not
permitted and that, therefore, there may be rights preventing further general
use and reuse.
If you intended to use these data in a public or commercial product, please
check the original sources for any specific restrictions.