README.md

Countries

This is the countries data stored in different file formats. The data has been constructed and organized with the help of GeoNames public data.

Country Data

• English Name.
• Arabic Name.
• ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 Code.
• ISO 3166-1 Alpha-3 Code.
• Phone Code.

Availabe File Formats

• CSV:

English Name	Arabic Name	Alpha-2 Code	Alpha-3 Code	Phone Code
Egypt	مصر	EG	EGY	20

• JSON:

{
 "english_name": "Egypt",
 "arabic_name": "مصر",
 "alpha2_code": "EG",
 "alpha3_code": "EGY",
 "phone_code": "20"
}

• SQL:

INSERT INTO COUNTRY (ENGLISH_NAME, ARABIC_NAME, ALPHA2_CODE, ALPHA3_CODE, PHONE_CODE) VALUES('Egypt', 'مصر', 'EG', 'EGY', '20');

Custom File Format

You can use the following python script to read countries data from countries.csv file, then you can rewrite them back to another file with a new format.

import csv

my_file = open("my_file.txt", "w")

with open('countries.csv') as csv_file:
    csv_reader = csv.reader(csv_file)
    csv_reader.next()
    for row in csv_reader:
        for column in row:
            my_file.write(column + ",")
        my_file.write("\n")

my_file.close()