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A Python Dictionary to translate Country Names to Two letter codes
# Python Dictionary to translate Countries to Two-Letter codes and vice versa.
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# https://gist.github.com/rogerallen/1583606
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# Dedicated to the public domain. To the extent possible under law,
# Roger Allen has waived all copyright and related or neighboring
# rights to this code. Data originally from Wikipedia at the url:
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
#
# Automatically Generated 2024-10-08 07:45:05 via Jupyter Notebook from
# https://gist.github.com/rogerallen/d75440e8e5ea4762374dfd5c1ddf84e0
country_to_abbrev = {
"Andorra": "AD",
"United Arab Emirates": "AE",
"Afghanistan": "AF",
"Antigua and Barbuda": "AG",
"Anguilla": "AI",
"Albania": "AL",
"Armenia": "AM",
"Angola": "AO",
"Antarctica": "AQ",
"Argentina": "AR",
"American Samoa": "AS",
"Austria": "AT",
"Australia": "AU",
"Aruba": "AW",
"Åland Islands": "AX",
"Azerbaijan": "AZ",
"Bosnia and Herzegovina": "BA",
"Barbados": "BB",
"Bangladesh": "BD",
"Belgium": "BE",
"Burkina Faso": "BF",
"Bulgaria": "BG",
"Bahrain": "BH",
"Burundi": "BI",
"Benin": "BJ",
"Saint Barthélemy": "BL",
"Bermuda": "BM",
"Brunei Darussalam": "BN",
"Bolivia, Plurinational State of": "BO",
"Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba": "BQ",
"Brazil": "BR",
"Bahamas": "BS",
"Bhutan": "BT",
"Bouvet Island": "BV",
"Botswana": "BW",
"Belarus": "BY",
"Belize": "BZ",
"Canada": "CA",
"Cocos (Keeling) Islands": "CC",
"Congo, Democratic Republic of the": "CD",
"Central African Republic": "CF",
"Congo": "CG",
"Switzerland": "CH",
"Côte d'Ivoire": "CI",
"Cook Islands": "CK",
"Chile": "CL",
"Cameroon": "CM",
"China": "CN",
"Colombia": "CO",
"Costa Rica": "CR",
"Cuba": "CU",
"Cabo Verde": "CV",
"Curaçao": "CW",
"Christmas Island": "CX",
"Cyprus": "CY",
"Czechia": "CZ",
"Germany": "DE",
"Djibouti": "DJ",
"Denmark": "DK",
"Dominica": "DM",
"Dominican Republic": "DO",
"Algeria": "DZ",
"Ecuador": "EC",
"Estonia": "EE",
"Egypt": "EG",
"Western Sahara": "EH",
"Eritrea": "ER",
"Spain": "ES",
"Ethiopia": "ET",
"Finland": "FI",
"Fiji": "FJ",
"Falkland Islands (Malvinas)": "FK",
"Micronesia, Federated States of": "FM",
"Faroe Islands": "FO",
"France": "FR",
"Gabon": "GA",
"United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland": "GB",
"Grenada": "GD",
"Georgia": "GE",
"French Guiana": "GF",
"Guernsey": "GG",
"Ghana": "GH",
"Gibraltar": "GI",
"Greenland": "GL",
"Gambia": "GM",
"Guinea": "GN",
"Guadeloupe": "GP",
"Equatorial Guinea": "GQ",
"Greece": "GR",
"South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands": "GS",
"Guatemala": "GT",
"Guam": "GU",
"Guinea-Bissau": "GW",
"Guyana": "GY",
"Hong Kong": "HK",
"Heard Island and McDonald Islands": "HM",
"Honduras": "HN",
"Croatia": "HR",
"Haiti": "HT",
"Hungary": "HU",
"Indonesia": "ID",
"Ireland": "IE",
"Israel": "IL",
"Isle of Man": "IM",
"India": "IN",
"British Indian Ocean Territory": "IO",
"Iraq": "IQ",
"Iran, Islamic Republic of": "IR",
"Iceland": "IS",
"Italy": "IT",
"Jersey": "JE",
"Jamaica": "JM",
"Jordan": "JO",
"Japan": "JP",
"Kenya": "KE",
"Kyrgyzstan": "KG",
"Cambodia": "KH",
"Kiribati": "KI",
"Comoros": "KM",
"Saint Kitts and Nevis": "KN",
"Korea, Democratic People's Republic of": "KP",
"Korea, Republic of": "KR",
"Kuwait": "KW",
"Cayman Islands": "KY",
"Kazakhstan": "KZ",
"Lao People's Democratic Republic": "LA",
"Lebanon": "LB",
"Saint Lucia": "LC",
"Liechtenstein": "LI",
"Sri Lanka": "LK",
"Liberia": "LR",
"Lesotho": "LS",
"Lithuania": "LT",
"Luxembourg": "LU",
"Latvia": "LV",
"Libya": "LY",
"Morocco": "MA",
"Monaco": "MC",
"Moldova, Republic of": "MD",
"Montenegro": "ME",
"Saint Martin (French part)": "MF",
"Madagascar": "MG",
"Marshall Islands": "MH",
"North Macedonia": "MK",
"Mali": "ML",
"Myanmar": "MM",
"Mongolia": "MN",
"Macao": "MO",
"Northern Mariana Islands": "MP",
"Martinique": "MQ",
"Mauritania": "MR",
"Montserrat": "MS",
"Malta": "MT",
"Mauritius": "MU",
"Maldives": "MV",
"Malawi": "MW",
"Mexico": "MX",
"Malaysia": "MY",
"Mozambique": "MZ",
"Namibia": "NA",
"New Caledonia": "NC",
"Niger": "NE",
"Norfolk Island": "NF",
"Nigeria": "NG",
"Nicaragua": "NI",
"Netherlands, Kingdom of the": "NL",
"Norway": "NO",
"Nepal": "NP",
"Nauru": "NR",
"Niue": "NU",
"New Zealand": "NZ",
"Oman": "OM",
"Panama": "PA",
"Peru": "PE",
"French Polynesia": "PF",
"Papua New Guinea": "PG",
"Philippines": "PH",
"Pakistan": "PK",
"Poland": "PL",
"Saint Pierre and Miquelon": "PM",
"Pitcairn": "PN",
"Puerto Rico": "PR",
"Palestine, State of": "PS",
"Portugal": "PT",
"Palau": "PW",
"Paraguay": "PY",
"Qatar": "QA",
"Réunion": "RE",
"Romania": "RO",
"Serbia": "RS",
"Russian Federation": "RU",
"Rwanda": "RW",
"Saudi Arabia": "SA",
"Solomon Islands": "SB",
"Seychelles": "SC",
"Sudan": "SD",
"Sweden": "SE",
"Singapore": "SG",
"Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha": "SH",
"Slovenia": "SI",
"Svalbard and Jan Mayen": "SJ",
"Slovakia": "SK",
"Sierra Leone": "SL",
"San Marino": "SM",
"Senegal": "SN",
"Somalia": "SO",
"Suriname": "SR",
"South Sudan": "SS",
"Sao Tome and Principe": "ST",
"El Salvador": "SV",
"Sint Maarten (Dutch part)": "SX",
"Syrian Arab Republic": "SY",
"Eswatini": "SZ",
"Turks and Caicos Islands": "TC",
"Chad": "TD",
"French Southern Territories": "TF",
"Togo": "TG",
"Thailand": "TH",
"Tajikistan": "TJ",
"Tokelau": "TK",
"Timor-Leste": "TL",
"Turkmenistan": "TM",
"Tunisia": "TN",
"Tonga": "TO",
"Türkiye": "TR",
"Trinidad and Tobago": "TT",
"Tuvalu": "TV",
"Taiwan, Province of China": "TW",
"Tanzania, United Republic of": "TZ",
"Ukraine": "UA",
"Uganda": "UG",
"United States Minor Outlying Islands": "UM",
"United States of America": "US",
"Uruguay": "UY",
"Uzbekistan": "UZ",
"Holy See": "VA",
"Saint Vincent and the Grenadines": "VC",
"Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of": "VE",
"Virgin Islands (British)": "VG",
"Virgin Islands (U.S.)": "VI",
"Viet Nam": "VN",
"Vanuatu": "VU",
"Wallis and Futuna": "WF",
"Samoa": "WS",
"Yemen": "YE",
"Mayotte": "YT",
"South Africa": "ZA",
"Zambia": "ZM",
"Zimbabwe": "ZW",
}
# invert the dictionary
abbrev_to_country = dict(map(reversed, country_to_abbrev.items()))
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Updated. I'll clean up the wikipedia parsing code and post that soon.

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rjworks commented Aug 15, 2022

how can i get the full name through id in python?

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Updated with latest results from Wikipedia-scraping script. Changes to remove a bunch of parentheses and Türkiye

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