Countries, Languages & Continents data

Continents & countries: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code (with alpha-2 to alpha-3 set), name, ISO 639-1 languages, capital, ISO 4217 currencies (with symbols & numeric codes), native name, calling codes. Lists are available in JSON, CSV and SQL formats. Also, contains separate JSON files with additional country Emoji flags data.

Version 3.0: Breaking changes

Version 3 comes with some data structure changes. It was completely reworked under the hood with TypeScript, ESM exports and a Bun workspaces monorepo structure.

Everything is strongly typed so you can easily use data with auto-complete in your IDE.

Note: If your projects depend on the old structure, carefully specify required versions in your dependencies.

Installation

Package is available via:

• Bun bun add countries-list
• NPM npm install countries-list
• Composer / Packagist composer require annexare/countries-list

Usage (version 3.x)

Module exports continents, countries, languages and utility functions.

// Interfaces and types
import type {
  ICountry,
  ICountryData,
  ILanguage,
  TContinentCode,
  TCountryCode,
  TLanguageCode,
} from 'countries-list'

// Main data and utils
import { continents, countries, languages } from 'countries-list'
// Utils
import { getCountryCode, getCountryData, getCountryDataList, getEmojiFlag } from 'countries-list'

// Minimal data in JSON
import countries2to3 from 'countries-list/minimal/countries.2to3.min.json'
import countries3to2 from 'countries-list/minimal/countries.3to2.min.json'
import languageNames from 'countries-list/minimal/languages.native.min'

getCountryCode('Ukraine') // 'UA'
getCountryCode('Україна') // 'UA'
getCountryData('UA') // ICountryData

Built files are in the dist directory of this repository, and packages/countries directory contains source data.

Note: JS build contains ES modules, CommonJS and IIFE (for now)

• CJS cjs/index.js
• ESM mjs/index.js
• IIFE index.iife.js

Currencies (ISO 4217)

Full ISO 4217 currency data — English and native name, UI symbol, native symbol, 3-digit numeric code and minor-unit decimals — is an opt-in import via the countries-list/currencies subpath, so it does not affect the main bundle size:

import type { ICurrency, ICurrencyData, TCurrencyCode } from 'countries-list'
import { currencies, getCurrency, getCurrencyByNumeric } from 'countries-list/currencies'

// Minimal maps (code -> value)
import currencySymbols from 'countries-list/minimal/currencies.symbol.min.json'
import currencyNumbers from 'countries-list/minimal/currencies.numeric.min.json'

currencies.UAH // { name: 'Ukrainian Hryvnia', native: 'українська гривня', symbol: '₴', symbolNative: '₴', numeric: '980', decimals: 2 }
getCurrency('JPY') // ICurrencyData: { code: 'JPY', name: 'Japanese Yen', symbol: '¥', decimals: 0, ... }
getCurrencyByNumeric('840') // ICurrencyData for USD — numeric lookup, e.g. for banking

The dataset covers the complete active ISO 4217 list plus a few withdrawn codes still referenced by country data (e.g. ANG, flagged with withdrawn: true). symbol falls back to the ISO code where a currency has no distinct Latin glyph (e.g. CHF, KWD); the local glyph is then in symbolNative. Symbols come from Unicode CLDR (ISO 4217 itself defines no symbols).

Data structure examples

const continents = {
  AF: 'Africa',
  AN: 'Antarctica',
  AS: 'Asia',
  EU: 'Europe',
  NA: 'North America',
  OC: 'Oceania',
  SA: 'South America',
}

const countries = {
  // ...
  UA: {
    name: 'Ukraine',
    native: 'Україна',
    phone: [380],
    continent: 'EU',
    capital: 'Kyiv',
    currency: ['UAH'],
    languages: ['uk'],
  },
  // ...
}

const languages = {
  // ...
  uk: {
    name: 'Ukrainian',
    native: 'Українська',
  },
  ur: {
    name: 'Urdu',
    native: 'اردو',
    rtl: 1,
  },
  // ...
}

const currencies = {
  // ...
  UAH: {
    name: 'Ukrainian Hryvnia',
    native: 'українська гривня',
    symbol: '₴',
    symbolNative: '₴',
    numeric: '980',
    decimals: 2,
  },
  // ...
}

Contributing to this repository

Everything is generated from strongly typed files in packages/countries/src, including SQL file.

Everything in dist is generated, so please make data related changes ONLY to files from packages/countries, commit them. Use bun run build / bun run test to build/test generated files.

The currencies dataset (packages/countries/src/data/currencies.ts) is generated from the official ISO 4217 list and Unicode CLDR via packages/scripts/generateCurrencies.ts. Refresh it with cd packages/scripts && bun run generate:currencies (requires network) when ISO 4217 publishes an update, rather than editing the data by hand.

Credits

Prepared by Annexare Studio from different public sources. Feel free to use it as you need in your apps or send updates into this public repository. It's under MIT license.