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About the Country List API

The country list API enables you to retrieve a current list of country codes and their respective country names. It does not require an API key. Requests are rate-limited to once per five seconds.

Using the API

This API allows you to retrieve a map of country codes and names to convert from a two-character country code into a full country name. There are two versions of this list available: JSON and raw.

JSON

Raw

Example Response

Below is an example of the JSON response. The raw response is similar but uses a new line delimited colon-separated list instead.

{
	"message": "Country List",
	"success": true,
	"countries": {
		"US": "United States",
		"CA": "Canada",
		"GB": "United Kingdom",
		"AF": "Afghanistan",
		"AX": "Aland Islands",
		"AL": "Albania",
		"DZ": "Algeria",
		"AS": "American Samoa",
		"AD": "Andorra",
		"AO": "Angola",
		"AI": "Anguilla",
		"AQ": "Antarctica",
		"AG": "Antigua and Barbuda",
		"AR": "Argentina",
		"AM": "Armenia",
		"AW": "Aruba",
		"AU": "Australia",
		"AT": "Austria",
		"AZ": "Azerbaijan",
		"BS": "Bahamas",
		"BH": "Bahrain",
		"BD": "Bangladesh",
		"BB": "Barbados",
		"BY": "Belarus",
		"BE": "Belgium",
		"BZ": "Belize",
		"BJ": "Benin",
		"BM": "Bermuda",
		"BT": "Bhutan",
		"BO": "Bolivia",
		"BA": "Bosnia and Herzegovina",
		"BW": "Botswana",
		"BV": "Bouvet Island",
		"BR": "Brazil",
		"IO": "British Indian Ocean Territory",
		"BN": "Brunei Darussalam",
		"BG": "Bulgaria",
		"BF": "Burkina Faso",
		"BI": "Burundi",
		"KH": "Cambodia",
		"CM": "Cameroon",
		"CV": "Cape Verde",
		"KY": "Cayman Islands",
		"CF": "Central African Republic",
		"TD": "Chad",
		"CL": "Chile",
		"CN": "China",
		"CX": "Christmas Island",
		"CC": "Cocos (Keeling) Islands",
		"CO": "Colombia",
		"KM": "Comoros",
		"CG": "Congo",
		"CD": "Congo, The Democratic Republic of the",
		"CK": "Cook Islands",
		"CR": "Costa Rica",
		"CI": "Cote D'Ivoire",
		"HR": "Croatia",
		"CU": "Cuba",
		"CY": "Cyprus",
		"CZ": "Czech Republic",
		"DK": "Denmark",
		"DJ": "Djibouti",
		"DM": "Dominica",
		"DO": "Dominican Republic",
		"EC": "Ecuador",
		"EG": "Egypt",
		"SV": "El Salvador",
		"GQ": "Equatorial Guinea",
		"ER": "Eritrea",
		"EE": "Estonia",
		"ET": "Ethiopia",
		"FK": "Falkland Islands (Malvinas)",
		"FO": "Faroe Islands",
		"FJ": "Fiji",
		"FI": "Finland",
		"FR": "France",
		"GF": "French Guiana",
		"PF": "French Polynesia",
		"TF": "French Southern Territories",
		"GA": "Gabon",
		"GM": "Gambia",
		"GE": "Georgia",
		"DE": "Germany",
		"GH": "Ghana",
		"GI": "Gibraltar",
		"GR": "Greece",
		"GL": "Greenland",
		"GD": "Grenada",
		"GP": "Guadeloupe",
		"GU": "Guam",
		"GT": "Guatemala",
		"GG": "Guernsey",
		"GN": "Guinea",
		"GW": "Guinea-Bissau",
		"GY": "Guyana",
		"HT": "Haiti",
		"HM": "Heard Island and McDonald Islands",
		"VA": "Holy See (Vatican City State)",
		"HN": "Honduras",
		"HK": "Hong Kong",
		"HU": "Hungary",
		"IS": "Iceland",
		"IN": "India",
		"ID": "Indonesia",
		"IR": "Iran, Islamic Republic of",
		"IQ": "Iraq",
		"IE": "Ireland",
		"IM": "Isle of Man",
		"IL": "Israel",
		"IT": "Italy",
		"JM": "Jamaica",
		"JP": "Japan",
		"JE": "Jersey",
		"JO": "Jordan",
		"KZ": "Kazakhstan",
		"KE": "Kenya",
		"KI": "Kiribati",
		"KP": "Korea, Democratic People's Republic of",
		"KR": "Korea, Republic of",
		"KW": "Kuwait",
		"KG": "Kyrgyzstan",
		"LA": "Lao People's Democratic Republic",
		"LV": "Latvia",
		"LB": "Lebanon",
		"LS": "Lesotho",
		"LR": "Liberia",
		"LY": "Libyan Arab Jamahiriya",
		"LI": "Liechtenstein",
		"LT": "Lithuania",
		"LU": "Luxembourg",
		"MO": "Macao",
		"MK": "Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of",
		"MG": "Madagascar",
		"MW": "Malawi",
		"MY": "Malaysia",
		"MV": "Maldives",
		"ML": "Mali",
		"MT": "Malta",
		"MH": "Marshall Islands",
		"MQ": "Martinique",
		"MR": "Mauritania",
		"MU": "Mauritius",
		"YT": "Mayotte",
		"MX": "Mexico",
		"FM": "Micronesia, Federated States of",
		"MD": "Moldova, Republic of",
		"MC": "Monaco",
		"MN": "Mongolia",
		"ME": "Montenegro",
		"MS": "Montserrat",
		"MA": "Morocco",
		"MZ": "Mozambique",
		"MM": "Myanmar",
		"NA": "Namibia",
		"NR": "Nauru",
		"NP": "Nepal",
		"NL": "Netherlands",
		"AN": "Netherlands Antilles",
		"NC": "New Caledonia",
		"NZ": "New Zealand",
		"NI": "Nicaragua",
		"NE": "Niger",
		"NG": "Nigeria",
		"NU": "Niue",
		"NF": "Norfolk Island",
		"MP": "Northern Mariana Islands",
		"NO": "Norway",
		"OM": "Oman",
		"PK": "Pakistan",
		"PW": "Palau",
		"PS": "Palestinian Territory, Occupied",
		"PA": "Panama",
		"PG": "Papua New Guinea",
		"PY": "Paraguay",
		"PE": "Peru",
		"PH": "Philippines",
		"PN": "Pitcairn",
		"PL": "Poland",
		"PT": "Portugal",
		"PR": "Puerto Rico",
		"QA": "Qatar",
		"RE": "Reunion",
		"RO": "Romania",
		"RU": "Russian Federation",
		"RW": "Rwanda",
		"BL": "Saint Barthelemy",
		"SH": "Saint Helena",
		"KN": "Saint Kitts and Nevis",
		"LC": "Saint Lucia",
		"MF": "Saint Martin",
		"PM": "Saint Pierre and Miquelon",
		"VC": "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines",
		"WS": "Samoa",
		"SM": "San Marino",
		"ST": "Sao Tome and Principe",
		"SA": "Saudi Arabia",
		"SN": "Senegal",
		"RS": "Serbia",
		"SC": "Seychelles",
		"SL": "Sierra Leone",
		"SG": "Singapore",
		"SK": "Slovakia",
		"SI": "Slovenia",
		"SB": "Solomon Islands",
		"SO": "Somalia",
		"ZA": "South Africa",
		"GS": "South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands",
		"ES": "Spain",
		"LK": "Sri Lanka",
		"SD": "Sudan",
		"SR": "Suriname",
		"SJ": "Svalbard and Jan Mayen",
		"SZ": "Swaziland",
		"SE": "Sweden",
		"CH": "Switzerland",
		"SY": "Syrian Arab Republic",
		"TW": "Taiwan, Province Of China",
		"TJ": "Tajikistan",
		"TZ": "Tanzania, United Republic of",
		"TH": "Thailand",
		"TL": "Timor-Leste",
		"TG": "Togo",
		"TK": "Tokelau",
		"TO": "Tonga",
		"TT": "Trinidad and Tobago",
		"TN": "Tunisia",
		"TR": "Turkey",
		"TM": "Turkmenistan",
		"TC": "Turks and Caicos Islands",
		"TV": "Tuvalu",
		"UG": "Uganda",
		"UA": "Ukraine",
		"AE": "United Arab Emirates",
		"UM": "United States Minor Outlying Islands",
		"UY": "Uruguay",
		"UZ": "Uzbekistan",
		"VU": "Vanuatu",
		"VE": "Venezuela",
		"VN": "Viet Nam",
		"VG": "Virgin Islands, British",
		"VI": "Virgin Islands, U.S.",
		"WF": "Wallis And Futuna",
		"EH": "Western Sahara",
		"YE": "Yemen",
		"ZM": "Zambia",
		"ZW": "Zimbabwe"
	}
}

 
{
    "message": "Country List",
    "success": true,
    "countries": {
        "US": "United States",
        "CA": "Canada",
        "GB": "United Kingdom",
        "AF": "Afghanistan",
        "AX": "Aland Islands",
        "AL": "Albania",
        "DZ": "Algeria",
        "AS": "American Samoa",
        "AD": "Andorra",
        "AO": "Angola",
        "AI": "Anguilla",
        "AQ": "Antarctica",
        "AG": "Antigua and Barbuda",
        "AR": "Argentina",
        "AM": "Armenia",
        "AW": "Aruba",
        "AU": "Australia",
        "AT": "Austria",
        "AZ": "Azerbaijan",
        "BS": "Bahamas",
        "BH": "Bahrain",
        "BD": "Bangladesh",
        "BB": "Barbados",
        "BY": "Belarus",
        "BE": "Belgium",
        "BZ": "Belize",
        "BJ": "Benin",
        "BM": "Bermuda",
        "BT": "Bhutan",
        "BO": "Bolivia",
        "BA": "Bosnia and Herzegovina",
        "BW": "Botswana",
        "BV": "Bouvet Island",
        "BR": "Brazil",
        "IO": "British Indian Ocean Territory",
        "BN": "Brunei Darussalam",
        "BG": "Bulgaria",
        "BF": "Burkina Faso",
        "BI": "Burundi",
        "KH": "Cambodia",
        "CM": "Cameroon",
        "CV": "Cape Verde",
        "KY": "Cayman Islands",
        "CF": "Central African Republic",
        "TD": "Chad",
        "CL": "Chile",
        "CN": "China",
        "CX": "Christmas Island",
        "CC": "Cocos (Keeling) Islands",
        "CO": "Colombia",
        "KM": "Comoros",
        "CG": "Congo",
        "CD": "Congo, The Democratic Republic of the",
        "CK": "Cook Islands",
        "CR": "Costa Rica",
        "CI": "Cote D'Ivoire",
        "HR": "Croatia",
        "CU": "Cuba",
        "CY": "Cyprus",
        "CZ": "Czech Republic",
        "DK": "Denmark",
        "DJ": "Djibouti",
        "DM": "Dominica",
        "DO": "Dominican Republic",
        "EC": "Ecuador",
        "EG": "Egypt",
        "SV": "El Salvador",
        "GQ": "Equatorial Guinea",
        "ER": "Eritrea",
        "EE": "Estonia",
        "ET": "Ethiopia",
        "FK": "Falkland Islands (Malvinas)",
        "FO": "Faroe Islands",
        "FJ": "Fiji",
        "FI": "Finland",
        "FR": "France",
        "GF": "French Guiana",
        "PF": "French Polynesia",
        "TF": "French Southern Territories",
        "GA": "Gabon",
        "GM": "Gambia",
        "GE": "Georgia",
        "DE": "Germany",
        "GH": "Ghana",
        "GI": "Gibraltar",
        "GR": "Greece",
        "GL": "Greenland",
        "GD": "Grenada",
        "GP": "Guadeloupe",
        "GU": "Guam",
        "GT": "Guatemala",
        "GG": "Guernsey",
        "GN": "Guinea",
        "GW": "Guinea-Bissau",
        "GY": "Guyana",
        "HT": "Haiti",
        "HM": "Heard Island and McDonald Islands",
        "VA": "Holy See (Vatican City State)",
        "HN": "Honduras",
        "HK": "Hong Kong",
        "HU": "Hungary",
        "IS": "Iceland",
        "IN": "India",
        "ID": "Indonesia",
        "IR": "Iran, Islamic Republic of",
        "IQ": "Iraq",
        "IE": "Ireland",
        "IM": "Isle of Man",
        "IL": "Israel",
        "IT": "Italy",
        "JM": "Jamaica",
        "JP": "Japan",
        "JE": "Jersey",
        "JO": "Jordan",
        "KZ": "Kazakhstan",
        "KE": "Kenya",
        "KI": "Kiribati",
        "KP": "Korea, Democratic People's Republic of",
        "KR": "Korea, Republic of",
        "KW": "Kuwait",
        "KG": "Kyrgyzstan",
        "LA": "Lao People's Democratic Republic",
        "LV": "Latvia",
        "LB": "Lebanon",
        "LS": "Lesotho",
        "LR": "Liberia",
        "LY": "Libyan Arab Jamahiriya",
        "LI": "Liechtenstein",
        "LT": "Lithuania",
        "LU": "Luxembourg",
        "MO": "Macao",
        "MK": "Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of",
        "MG": "Madagascar",
        "MW": "Malawi",
        "MY": "Malaysia",
        "MV": "Maldives",
        "ML": "Mali",
        "MT": "Malta",
        "MH": "Marshall Islands",
        "MQ": "Martinique",
        "MR": "Mauritania",
        "MU": "Mauritius",
        "YT": "Mayotte",
        "MX": "Mexico",
        "FM": "Micronesia, Federated States of",
        "MD": "Moldova, Republic of",
        "MC": "Monaco",
        "MN": "Mongolia",
        "ME": "Montenegro",
        "MS": "Montserrat",
        "MA": "Morocco",
        "MZ": "Mozambique",
        "MM": "Myanmar",
        "NA": "Namibia",
        "NR": "Nauru",
        "NP": "Nepal",
        "NL": "Netherlands",
        "AN": "Netherlands Antilles",
        "NC": "New Caledonia",
        "NZ": "New Zealand",
        "NI": "Nicaragua",
        "NE": "Niger",
        "NG": "Nigeria",
        "NU": "Niue",
        "NF": "Norfolk Island",
        "MP": "Northern Mariana Islands",
        "NO": "Norway",
        "OM": "Oman",
        "PK": "Pakistan",
        "PW": "Palau",
        "PS": "Palestinian Territory, Occupied",
        "PA": "Panama",
        "PG": "Papua New Guinea",
        "PY": "Paraguay",
        "PE": "Peru",
        "PH": "Philippines",
        "PN": "Pitcairn",
        "PL": "Poland",
        "PT": "Portugal",
        "PR": "Puerto Rico",
        "QA": "Qatar",
        "RE": "Reunion",
        "RO": "Romania",
        "RU": "Russian Federation",
        "RW": "Rwanda",
        "BL": "Saint Barthelemy",
        "SH": "Saint Helena",
        "KN": "Saint Kitts and Nevis",
        "LC": "Saint Lucia",
        "MF": "Saint Martin",
        "PM": "Saint Pierre and Miquelon",
        "VC": "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines",
        "WS": "Samoa",
        "SM": "San Marino",
        "ST": "Sao Tome and Principe",
        "SA": "Saudi Arabia",
        "SN": "Senegal",
        "RS": "Serbia",
        "SC": "Seychelles",
        "SL": "Sierra Leone",
        "SG": "Singapore",
        "SK": "Slovakia",
        "SI": "Slovenia",
        "SB": "Solomon Islands",
        "SO": "Somalia",
        "ZA": "South Africa",
        "GS": "South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands",
        "ES": "Spain",
        "LK": "Sri Lanka",
        "SD": "Sudan",
        "SR": "Suriname",
        "SJ": "Svalbard and Jan Mayen",
        "SZ": "Swaziland",
        "SE": "Sweden",
        "CH": "Switzerland",
        "SY": "Syrian Arab Republic",
        "TW": "Taiwan, Province Of China",
        "TJ": "Tajikistan",
        "TZ": "Tanzania, United Republic of",
        "TH": "Thailand",
        "TL": "Timor-Leste",
        "TG": "Togo",
        "TK": "Tokelau",
        "TO": "Tonga",
        "TT": "Trinidad and Tobago",
        "TN": "Tunisia",
        "TR": "Turkey",
        "TM": "Turkmenistan",
        "TC": "Turks and Caicos Islands",
        "TV": "Tuvalu",
        "UG": "Uganda",
        "UA": "Ukraine",
        "AE": "United Arab Emirates",
        "UM": "United States Minor Outlying Islands",
        "UY": "Uruguay",
        "UZ": "Uzbekistan",
        "VU": "Vanuatu",
        "VE": "Venezuela",
        "VN": "Viet Nam",
        "VG": "Virgin Islands, British",
        "VI": "Virgin Islands, U.S.",
        "WF": "Wallis And Futuna",
        "EH": "Western Sahara",
        "YE": "Yemen",
        "ZM": "Zambia",
        "ZW": "Zimbabwe"
    }
}

EXAMPLE CODE

// Base URL
$url = 'https://www.ipqualityscore.com/api/json/country/list';

// Finish assembling the URL and make the request.
$json = file_get_contents($url);
	
// Exit and print the response.
exit(print_r(json_decode($json, true)));

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// Base URL
$url = 'https://www.ipqualityscore.com/api/json/country/list';
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// Finish assembling the URL and make the request.
$json = file_get_contents($url);
    
// Exit and print the response.
exit(print_r(json_decode($json, true)));

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