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Country Info API

Introduction

The Country Info API offered by BigDataCloud delivers speedy, precise, and up-to-date comprehensive information regarding a country's ISO-defined names, languages, currencies, calling codes, and flags, in addition to standard region names and income levels defined by United Nations and World Bank. 

This API provides access to country codes based on the ISO 3166-1 system, including the isoAlpha-2, isoAlpha-3, and ISO 3166-1 or m49Code, which utilise two-letter, three-letter, and three-digit country codes respectively, for countries that don't use the Roman alphabet.

By taking these iso-codes as input, this API delivers detailed country information and has a feature that generates localised names according to your preferences.

The country data available through this API serves a wide range of purposes, including facilitating the auto-completion of forms based on user input or creating localised content for basic websites, as well as supporting crucial operations like ensuring correct country labelling of physical assets for large enterprises such as logistic companies. Additionally, travel and tourism websites, Saas platforms and financial institutions are some of the other domains where this API can be leveraged for its benefits.

Get Started

This API is part of the IP Geolocation API Package and is available in free and paid plans. Please visit the IP Geolocation API Package package page for limits and pricing information.

Endpoint

GET
https://api-bdc.net/data/country-info

Request

Parameter
code
Type
string
Required
Yes
Description
Country code, acceptable in ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2, Alpha-3 or Numeric code formats
Parameter
localityLanguage
Type
string
Required
Optional, default value: en
Description
Preferred language for locality names in ISO 639-1 format, such as 'en' for English, 'es' for Spanish etc. If the requested language is not available for a requested location, it will default to English. If no English variant is known, will provide the native, local names
Parameter
key
Type
string
Required
Yes
Description
Your API key

Responses

200
OK

Sample Query

GET
https://api-bdc.net/data/country-info?code=au&localityLanguage=en&key=[YOUR API KEY]

Schema

application/json
isoAlpha2string
ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 code
isoAlpha3string
ISO 3166-1 Alpha-3 code
m49Codeinteger
United Nations M.49 code
namestring
Country name localised to the language as defined by 'localityLanguage' request parameter
isoNamestring
ISO 3166-1 Country name short
isoNameFullstring
ISO 3166-1 Country name full
isoAdminLanguagesarray
Administrative languages as defined by ISO 3166-1 standard
isoAlpha3string
ISO 3166-1 Alpha-3 code
isoAlpha2string
ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 code
isoNamestring
ISO 3166-1 Language name
nativeNamestring
A native name
unRegionstring
Region name as defined by the United Nations
currency
currency object
numericCodeinteger
ISO 4217 standard numeric code
codestring
ISO 4217 standard code
namestring
ISO 4217 English name
minorUnitsinteger
ISO 4217 minor units as the currency exponent (e.g. 2 = 1/100)
wbRegion
wbRegion object
idstring
world bank identification number. the expected values are: 'LCN','NA','SAS','SSF','ECS','MEA','EAS','NAC'
iso2Codestring
iso 2 letters code. the expected values are: 'ZJ','NA','8S','ZG','Z7','ZQ','Z4','XU'
valuestring
region name. the expected values are: 'Latin America & Caribbean','Aggregates','South Asia', 'Sub-Saharan Africa','Europe & Central Asia','Middle East & North Africa','East Asia & Pacific','North America'
wbIncomeLevel
wbIncomeLevel object
idstring
world bank identification number. the expected values are: 'HIC','NA','LIC','LMC','UMC','INX'
iso2Codestring
iso 2 letters code. the expected values are: 'XD','NA','XM','XN','XT','XY'
valuestring
income level name. the expected values are: 'High income','Aggregates','Low income','Lower middle income','Upper middle income','Not classified'
callingCodestring
Calling code
countryFlagEmojistring
Country emoji
wikidataIdstring
Wikidata item identifier, if available
geonameIdinteger
A unique identifier as is given by GeoNames.org
isIndependentboolean
Determines if the country/territory is independent according to ISO 3166 records

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400
Bad request

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403
Access denied, or your quota limit has exceeded

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404
Found no valid entry for the request

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500
An error has occurred and did not complete your request. Please try again

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