node-world

Utility to work with countries data.

Features

• European countries (for now)
• 4 languages for countries localized name (french, english, dutch and german)

Future

• Add web interface to manage countries data
• Add more countries
• Add more languages
• Add more data about each countries

Feel free to contribute.

Installation

$ npm install node-world

Quick Start

Load in the module

var World = require('node-world');

Retrieve country object

You can find a country by code, ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 or ISO 3166-1-alpha-3, and by name.

var country = World.findCountryByCode('SP'); // ISO 3166-1-alpha-2
var country = World.findCountryByCode('ESP'); // ISO 3166-1-alpha-3

var country = World.findCountryByName('Spain'); // Country name

Country methods

• getAlpha2Code() : retrieve ISO 3166-1-alpha-2

SP

• getAlpha3Code() : retrieve ISO 3166-1-alpha-3

ESP

• getCodes() : retrieve a JSON object which contains the 2 codes above

{
    "alpha_2_code": "ES",
    "alpha_3_code": "ESP"
}

• getName() : retrieve international country name

Spain

• getLocalizedNames() : retrieve localized names

{
    "fr": "Espagne",
    "en": "Spain",
    "de": "Spanien",
    "nl": "Spanje"
}

• getLocalizedNameIn( language ) : retrieve a localized name by language

Spain

Tests

$ npm run-script be-data