i18n-nationality

Nationalities as adjectives mapped to Country codes. This repository is heavily based on the i18n-iso-countries repository by michaelwittig. https://github.com/michaelwittig/node-i18n-iso-countries

i18n for nationalities of ISO 3166-1 country codes. We support Alpha-2, Alpha-3 and Numeric codes from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1#Officially_assigned_code_elements

Installing

Install it using npm: npm install i18n-nationality

var nationalities = require("i18n-nationality");

If you use i18n-nationality with Node.js your are done. If you use the package in a browser environment you also have to register the languages you want to use to minimize file size.

// Support german & english languages.
nationalities.registerLocale(require("i18n-nationality/langs/en.json"));
nationalities.registerLocale(require("i18n-nationality/langs/de.json"));

Code to Nationality

Get the name of a nationality by its ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2, Alpha-3 or Numeric code

var nationalities = require("i18n-nationality");
// in a browser environment: countries.registerLocale(require("i18n-nationality/langs/en.json"));
console.log("US (Alpha-2) => " + nationalities.getName("US", "en")); // American
console.log("US (Alpha-2) => " + nationalities.getName("US", "de")); // Amerikanisch
console.log("USA (Alpha-3) => " + nationalities.getName("USA", "en")); // American
console.log("USA (Numeric) => " + nationalities.getName("840", "en")); // American

Get all names by their ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 code

var nationalities = require("i18n-nationality");
// in a browser environment: nationalities.registerLocale(require("i18n-nationality/langs/en.json"));
console.log(nationalities.getNames("en")); // { 'AF': 'Afghan', 'AL': 'Albanian', [...], 'ZM': 'Zambian', 'ZW': 'Zimbabwean' }

Supported languages (ISO 639-1)

• de: German
• en: English
• fr: French
• no: Norwegian
• it: Italian
• fi: Finnish
• nl: Dutch
• es: Español

List of ISO 639-1 codes

Nationality to Code

var nationalities = require("i18n-nationality");
// in a browser environment: nationalities.registerLocale(require("i18n-nationality/langs/en.json"));
console.log("American => " + nationalities.getAlpha2Code('American', 'en'));
// American => US

console.log("American => " + nationalities.getAlpha3Code('American', 'en'));
// American => USA

Codes

Convert Alpha-3 to Alpha-2 code

var nationalities = require("i18n-nationality");
// in a browser environment: nationalities.registerLocale(require("i18n-nationality/langs/en.json"));
console.log("USA (Alpha-3) => " + nationalities.alpha3ToAlpha2("USA") + " (Alpha-2)");
// USA (Alpha-3) => US (Alpha-2)

Convert Numeric to Alpha-2 code

var nationalities = require("i18n-nationality");
// in a browser environment: nationalities.registerLocale(require("i18n-nationality/langs/en.json"));
console.log("840 (Numeric) => " + nationalities.numericToAlpha2("840") + " (Alpha-2)");
// 840 (Numeric) => US (Alpha-2)

Convert Alpha-2 to Alpha-3 code

var nationalities = require("i18n-nationality");
// in a browser environment: nationalities.registerLocale(require("i18n-nationality/langs/en.json"));
console.log("DE (Alpha-2) => " + nationalities.alpha2ToAlpha3("DE") + " (Alpha-3)");
// DE (Alpha-2) => DEU (Alpha-3)

Convert Numeric to Alpha-3 code

var nationalities = require("i18n-nationality");
// in a browser environment: nationalities.registerLocale(require("i18n-nationality/langs/en.json"));
console.log("840 (Numeric) => " + nationalities.numericToAlpha3("840") + " (Alpha-3)");
// 840 (Numeric) => USA (Alpha-3)

Convert Alpha-3 to Numeric code

var nationalities = require("i18n-nationality");
// in a browser environment: nationalities.registerLocale(require("i18n-nationality/langs/en.json"));
console.log(nationalities.alpha3ToNumeric("SWE"));
// 752

Convert Alpha-2 to Numeric code

var nationalities = require("i18n-nationality");
// in a browser environment: nationalities.registerLocale(require("i18n-nationality/langs/en.json"));
console.log(nationalities.alpha2ToNumeric("SE"));
// 752

Get all Alpha-2 codes

var nationalities = require("i18n-nationality");
// in a browser environment: nationalities.registerLocale(require("i18n-nationality/langs/en.json"));
console.log(nationalities.getAlpha2Codes());
// { 'AF': 'AFG', 'AX': 'ALA', [...], 'ZM': 'ZMB', 'ZW': 'ZWE' }

Get all Alpha-3 codes

var nationalities = require("i18n-nationality");
// in a browser environment: nationalities.registerLocale(require("i18n-nationality/langs/en.json"));
console.log(nationalities.getAlpha3Codes());
// { 'AFG': 'AF', 'ALA': 'AX', [...], 'ZMB': 'ZM', 'ZWE': 'ZW' }

Get all Numeric codes

var nationalities = require("i18n-nationality");
// in a browser environment: nationalities.registerLocale(require("i18n-nationality/langs/en.json"));
console.log(nationalities.getNumericCodes());
// { '004': 'AF', '008': 'AL', [...], '887': 'YE', '894': 'ZM' }

Validate country code

var nationalities = require("i18n-nationality");
// in a browser environment: nationalities.registerLocale(require("i18n-nationality/langs/en.json"));
console.log(nationalities.isValid("US"), nationalities.isValid("USA"), nationalities.isValid("XX")));
// true, true, false

Contribution

To add a language:

• add a json file under langs/
• add the language to the data object in entry-node.js at the top
• add language to section Supported languages in README.md
• run npm install && make test to make sure that tests are passing
• open a PR on GitHub

You can check codes here: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#home