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mledoze / countries

World countries in JSON, CSV, XML and Yaml. Any help is welcome!
https://mledoze.github.io/countries/
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Default order of countries #438

Closed ebenh closed 2 years ago

ebenh commented 2 years ago

Is there a reason why the default order of countries isn't alphabetical?

For instance, the list starts with "Aruba" instead of "Afghanistan".

IMHO, the list should be sorted by ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code by default.

mledoze commented 2 years ago

The reason is that the countries are sorted by ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code. The sort by ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code puts Andorra first but not Afghanistan.