Country Codes

This plugin provides an easy to access collection of ISO 3166-1, codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions. Contains the following from ISO 3166-1:

• ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, a two-letter system, used in many applications, most prominently for country code top-level domains (ccTLDs), with some exceptions.

• ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, a three-letter system, which allows a better visual association between country name and code element than the alpha-2 code.

• ISO 3166-1 numeric, a three-digit numerical system, with the advantage of script (writing system) independence, and hence useful for people or systems which uses a non-Latin script. This is identicalto codes defined by the United Nations Statistics Division.

Example

Find a country by name and retrieve information about it (alpha-2, alpha-3 and numeric):

australia = CountryCodes.find_by_name('Australia')
australia[:name]     # yields 'Australia'
australia[:a2]       # yields 'au'
australia[:a3]       # yields 'aus'
australia[:numeric]  # yields 36

Likewise countries can be found using any of the provides attributes (name, a2, a3 or numeric), such as:

CountryCodes.find_by_a2'au'  # yields 'Australia'

Search conditions are case-insensitive.

Copyright© 2007 James Brooks (http://blog.whitet.net), released under the MIT license

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