Resolving country code to country name

[linux2512]

I need to resolve a country code (US,GB,etc..) to the appropriate country name (United States, Great Britain, etc..), is there a country database I could access via C, C++? I've been sifting through header files and can't seem to find anything.

Thanks

[asimon]

KDE's KLocale::twoAlphaToCountryName (http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/classKLocale.html#a90) function does that. But if you don't do any KDE application, than kdelibs comes probably with too much overhead.

[linux2512]

KDE's KLocale::twoAlphaToCountryName (http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/classKLocale.html#a90) function does that. But if you don't do any KDE application, than kdelibs comes probably with too much overhead.

Thanks, I appreciate your reply, but my app is written in GTK.

[toojays]

There is a package called iso-codes which contains a table of country code to name mappings. You can either parse the XML file /usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_3166.xml, or use the tab-delimited /usr/share/iso-codes/iso_3166.tab.

This package also provides gettext files to translate the country names from English into various other languages.

[linux2512]

There is a package called iso-codes which contains a table of country code to name mappings. You can either parse the XML file /usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_3166.xml, or use the tab-delimited /usr/share/iso-codes/iso_3166.tab.

This package also provides gettext files to translate the country names from English into various other languages.

Just what I was looking for! Thanks toojays!

[BalochDude]

I found this page with country codes, its a ms sql server script, but i am sure you can modify it to anything you want, it will give you a list of all the countries and their codes:

http://www.chapterzero.co.uk/articles/download-list-of-countries-codes.aspx