samayo/country-data

A simple but useful data of the world (by country) in JSON formats


Keywords
json, data, country, capital-city, city, countries, country-data, country-json, currency, independence, json-format, language, population
License
MIT

Documentation

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A simple data of the world (by country) each in JSON format.

Download

Using npm

$ npm install country-json

or composer

$ composer require samayo/country-json

or git

$ git clone https://github.com/samayo/country-json

List of contents provided in JSON formats:

Usage

Examples using various languages on how display/integrate the data.

PHP
$file = file_get_contents("./src/country-by-capital-city.json");

foreach (json_decode($file, true) as $key => $value) {
  var_dump($value); // { country: 'Afghanistan', city: 'Kabul' ..}
}
Node.js
var cities = require('./src/country-by-capital-city.json')

console.log(cities[0]); // { country: 'Afghanistan', city: 'Kabul' }
Ruby
require 'json'

file = File.read('./src/country-by-capital-city.json')
json = JSON.parse(file)

puts json[0] # {"country"=>"Afghanistan", "city"=>"Kabul"}
Python
import yaml

with open('./src/country-by-capital-city.json') as json_file:
    for line in yaml.safe_load(json_file):
        print line # {'country': 'Afghanistan', 'city': 'Kabul'}
Golang
package main

import (
  "encoding/json"
  "fmt"
  "io/ioutil"
)

func main() {
  data, err := ioutil.ReadFile("path/to/country-by-capital-city.json")
  if err != nil {
    panic(err)
  }

  var entries []struct{ Country, City string }
  if err = json.Unmarshal(data, &entries); err != nil {
    panic(err)
  }

  for _, entry := range entries {
    fmt.Println(entry.Country, entry.City)  # {'country': 'Afghanistan', 'city': 'Kabul'}
  }
}

Contribution

Feel free to send a PR to fix, update or add new entry anytime. For non-minor changes (ex: country: name, language, city, independence date..), please include a source, if possible.

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