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stefangabos / world_countries

Constantly updated lists of world countries and their associated alpha-2, alpha-3 and numeric country codes as defined by the ISO 3166 standard, available in CSV, JSON , PHP, SQL and XML formats, in multiple languages and with national flags included; also available are the ISO 3166-2 codes of provinces/ states associated with the countries
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Change data source to official EU data #69

Open 463 opened 2 years ago

463 commented 2 years ago

As I understand actually you take the data from Wikipedia. There may be some of "poetic freedom" inside. Is it not more convenient to use official EU data (or to verify with them). They are well maintained and contain some more data (e. g. the capital and the currency, currency subunit and currency code) and all 24 EU languages. http://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-5000500.htm http://publications.europa.eu/code/de/de-5000500.htm http://publications.europa.eu/code/fr/fr-5000500.htm http://publications.europa.eu/code/lt/lt-5000500.htm ...

stefangabos commented 2 years ago

These look nice! I've chosen Wikipedia at the time because I couldn't find a more reliable multi-lingual source. I also know - and notice it quite often - that the information is constantly changing based on the person who edits it but overall, I'd say that the information on Wikipedia is 99.8% accurate :) I'll have a look at the sources you sent and see how I can use it. Thanks a lot!