country-query

A javascript query API for world-countries data.

Table of contents

• API
• Thanks
• License

API

find(by, value)

Finds data for one or more countries matching some search value.

Takes a property name to search by and a value to search for. If the value matches a single country, an object containing that country's data will be returned. If the value matches more than one country, an array of country objects will be returned. If no countries match, or an invalid property name is used, returns null.

This function is not case-sensitive, i.e the input values German, german and gErMaN would all match the language German.

1var CountryQuery = require('country-query')
2
3var austria = CountryQuery.find('cca2', 'AT')
4var germany = CountryQuery.find('demonym', 'German')
5
6// austria and germany will both be objects with this structure:
7/*
8    {
9        "name": {
10            "common": "Austria",
11            "official": "Republic of Austria",
12            "native": {
13                "bar": {
14                    "official": "Republik Österreich",
15                    "common": "Österreich"
16                }
17            }
18        },
19        "tld": [".at"],
20        "cca2": "AT",
21        "ccn3": "040",
22        "cca3": "AUT",
23        "cioc": "AUT",
24        "independent": true,
25        "status": "officially-assigned",
26        "currencies": {
27            "EUR": { "name": "Euro", "symbol": "\u20ac" }
28        },
29        "idd": {
30            "root": "+4",
31            "suffixes": ["3"]
32        },
33        "capital": ["Vienna"],
34        "altSpellings": ["AT", "Osterreich", "Oesterreich"],
35        "region": "Europe",
36        "subregion": "Western Europe",
37        "languages": {
38            "bar": "Austro-Bavarian German"
39        },
40        "translations": {
41            "ces": {
42                "official": "Rakouská republika",
43                "common": "Rakousko"
44            },
45            "cym": {
46                "official": "Gweriniaeth Awstria",
47                "common": "Awstria"
48            },
49            "deu": {
50                "official": "Republik Österreich",
51                "common": "Österreich"
52            },
53            // ...snip...
54        },
55        "latlng": [47.33333333, 13.33333333],
56        "landlocked": true,
57        "borders": ["CZE", "DEU", "HUN", "ITA", "LIE", "SVK", "SVN", "CHE"],
58        "area": 83871,
59        "flag": "\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf9",
60        "demonyms": {
61            "eng": {
62                "f": "Austrian",
63                "m": "Austrian"
64            },
65            "fra": {
66                "f": "Autrichienne",
67                "m": "Autrichien"
68            }
69        }
70    }
71 */
72
73var euroCountries = CountryQuery.find('currencies', 'EUR')
74
75// euroCountries will be an array of country objects

Acceptable values for by are:

• tld
• currencies
• idd
• altSpellings
• latlng
• borders
• name.common
• name.official
• name.native
• translations
• languages
• cca2
• ccn3
• cca3
• capital
• cioc
• region
• subregion
• demonyms
• landlocked
• area

findByArea(area)

Find country by its area.

Return value is the same as find.

findByAltSpelling(altSpelling)

Find country by alternative spellings of its name.

Return value is the same as find.

findByBorders(borders)

Find country by countries that it borders

Return value is the same as find.

findByIdd(idd)

Find country by telephone calling code.

Return value is the same as find.

findByCapital(capital)

Find country by its capital city.

Return value is the same as find.

findByCca2(cca2)

Find country by 2-letter country code.

Return value is the same as find.

findByCca3(cca3)

Find country by 3-letter country code.

Return value is the same as find.

findByCcn3(ccn3)

Find country by numeric country code.

Return value is the same as find.

findByCioc(cioc)

Find country by 3-letter International Olympic Commitee country code.

Return value is the same as find.

findByCurrency(currency)

Find country by currency.

Return value is the same as find.

findByDemonym(demonym)

Find country by one of the demonyms used for its citizens.

Return value is the same as find.

findByLandlocked(landlocked)

Find country by whether or not it is landlocked.

Return value is the same as find.

findByLanguage(language)

Find country by its language.

Return value is the same as find.

findByNameCommon(name)

Find country by its common name.

Return value is the same as find.

findByNameNative(name)

Find country by its native name.

Return value is the same as find.

findByNameOfficial(name)

Find country by its official name.

Return value is the same as find.

findByRegion(region)

Find country by the region it is located in.

Return value is the same as find.

findBySubregion(subregion)

Find country by subregion it is located in.

Return value is the same as find.

findByTld(tld)

Find country by top level domain.

Return value is the same as find.

findByTranslation(translation)

Find country by translations of its name.

Return value is the same as find.

Thanks

This project would not exist without the work of the contributors to the world-countries data set.

License

Copyright (C) 2015, Peter Thompson peter.thompson@dunelm.org.uk

Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

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