stefangabos/world_countries resource

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 observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/stefangabos/world_countries · homepage · PHP · CC-BY-SA-4.0 (other) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

81/100

Activity 93
Release rhythm 55
Longevity 100

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

gap_med: 30
age_days: 3871
days_rel: 301
days_push: 42
n_releases_24m: 6

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1592 stars · 389 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A constantly updated dataset of world countries, territories, and their ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, alpha-3, and numeric codes, plus ISO 3166-2 subdivision codes, available in CSV, JSON, PHP, MySQL, MSSQL, and XML formats in multiple languages with national flags. It is maintained as a static data repository rather than a software library.

Use cases

get a list of countries with ISO codes for a dropdown
populate a database table of countries and states
find country names in multiple languages
download country flags by ISO code
get ISO 3166-2 codes for provinces and states
seed a MySQL database with country data

When to choose

you need ready-made, regularly updated country/subdivision data in common formats
you need multilingual country names or flag images
you want SQL dumps to seed a database

When to avoid

you need a runtime API or library to query countries programmatically
you need geolocation, coordinates, or demographic data beyond ISO codes

Facets

dataset · maturity active

data-generation internationalization developer-tools apis cross-platform iso-3166 country-codes flags multilingual csv sql xml reference-data localization

2 sources

readme: https://github.com/stefangabos/world_countries · fetched 2026-08-28 · ebece21c0cd5
homepage: http://stefangabos.github.io/world_countries/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2aa9f439d34f

Member repositories

Repository	Role	Health v2
stefangabos/world_countries	main	81

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="stefangabos/world_countries")

Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00 · Report a problem