oxjs/tools/geo/jsonc/countries.jsonc
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/*
319 countries
-- sovereign, dependent and disputed countries according to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states
-- entities with country codes, according to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
-- dissolved countries, according to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-3 and http://www.imdb.com/country/
current, independent, dependent, disputed: 285, 202, 77, 6
dissolved, independent, dependent, disputed: 34, 22, 11, 1
*/
{
"code": {
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:AU
"Ashmore and Cartier Islands": "AU-AC", // AQ
"Coral Sea Islands": "AU-CS", // AQ
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:AZ
"Nagorno-Karabakh": "AZ-NK", // multiple
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:CY
"Northern Cyprus": "CY-NC", // multiple
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:GB
"Akrotiri and Dhekelia": "GB-AD", // unknown
"England": "GB-ENG",
"Northern Ireland": "GB-NIR",
"Scotland": "GB-SCT",
"Wales": "GB-WLS",
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:GE
"Abkhazia": "GE-AB",
"South Ossetia": "GE-SK",
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:GG
"Alderney": "GG-AL", // none
"Herm": "GG-HE", // none
"Sark": "GG-SA", // none
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:IN
"Jammu and Kashmir": "IN-JK",
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:MD
"Transnistria": "MD-SN",
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:NO
"Peter I Island": "NO-PI", // AQ
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:NZ
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:PK
"Azad Kashmir": "PK-JK",
"Gilgit-Baltistan": "PK-NA",
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:SO
"Somaliland": "SO-SO", // multiple
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_the_1970s
"South Vietnam": "VNVN",
"North Yemen": "YEYE",
"West Germany": "DEDE",
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_claims_in_Antarctica
"Adélie Land": "FR-AQ",
"Argentine Antarctica": "AR-AQ",
"Australian Antarctic Territory": "AU-AQ",
"Chilean Antarctic Territory": "CL-AQ",
"Ross Dependency": "NZ-AQ",
// http://www.imdb.com/country/
"Korea": "KOJP",
"Siam": "SITH"
},
// http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_continent
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borders_of_the_continents
"continents": {
"Africa": {
"Eastern Africa": [
"Burundi", "Comoros", "Djibouti", "Eritrea", "Ethiopia",
"French Afar and Issas", "Kenya", "Madagascar", "Malawi", "Mauritius",
"Mayotte", "Mozambique", "Réunion", "Rhodesia", "Rwanda",
"Seychelles", "Somalia", "Somaliland", "Tanzania", "Uganda",
"Zambia", "Zimbabwe"
],
"Middle Africa": [
"Angola", "Cameroon", "Central African Republic", "Chad", "Democratic Republic of the Congo",
"Equatorial Guinea", "Gabon", "Republic of the Congo", "São Tomé and Príncipe", "Zaire"
],
"Northern Africa": [
"Algeria", "Canary Islands", "Ceuta and Melilla", "Egypt", "Libya",
"Morocco", "Sahrawi", "South Sudan", "Sudan", "Tunisia"
],
"Southern Africa": [
"Botswana", "Lesotho", "Namibia", "South Africa", "Swaziland"
],
"Western Africa": [
"Ascension", "Benin", "Burkina Faso", "Cape Verde", "Côte d'Ivoire",
"Dahomey", "Gambia", "Ghana", "Guinea", "Guinea-Bissau",
"Liberia", "Mali", "Mauritania", "Niger", "Nigeria",
"Saint Helena", "Senegal", "Sierra Leone", "Togo", "Tristan da Cunha",
"Upper Volta"
]
},
"Antarctica": {
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_claims_in_Antarctica
"Antarctica": [
// antarctic
"Adélie Land", "Antarctica", "Argentine Antarctica", "Australian Antarctic Territory", "Bouvet Island",
"British Antarctic Territory", "Chilean Antarctic Territory",
"French Southern and Antarctic Territories",
"French Southern Territories", "Heard Island and McDonald Islands",
"Queen Maud Land", "Peter I Island", "Ross Dependency", "South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands"
]
},
"Asia": {
"Central Asia": [
"Kazakhstan", "Kyrgyzstan", "Tajikistan", "Turkmenistan", "Uzbekistan"
],
"Eastern Asia": [
"China", "Hong Kong", "Japan", "Korea", "Macau",
"Mongolia", "North Korea", "South Korea", "Taiwan"
],
"South-Eastern Asia": [
"Brunei", "Burma", "Cambodia", "Christmas Island", "Cocos Islands",
"East Timor", "Indonesia", "Laos", "Malaysia", "Myanmar",
"North Vietnam", "Philippines", "Siam", "Singapore", "South Vietnam",
"Thailand", "Timor-Leste", "Vietnam"
],
"Southern Asia": [
"Afghanistan", "Azad Kashmir", "Bangladesh", "Bhutan", "British Indian Ocean Territory",
"Diego Garcia", "Gilgit-Baltistan", "India", "Iran", "Jammu and Kashmir",
"Maldives", "Nepal", "Pakistan", "Sikkim", "Sri Lanka"
],
"Western Asia": [
"Abkhazia", "Akrotiri and Dhekelia", "Armenia", "Azerbaijan", "Bahrain",
"Cyprus", "Georgia", "Iraq", "Israel", "Jordan",
"Kuwait", "Lebanon", "Neutral Zone", "Nagorno-Karabakh", "North Yemen",
"Northern Cyprus", "Oman", "Palestine", "Qatar", "Saudi Arabia",
"South Ossetia", "South Yemen", "Syria", "Turkey", "United Arab Emirates",
"Yemen"
]
},
"Europe": {
"Eastern Europe": [
"Belarus", "Bulgaria", "Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic", "Czech Republic", "Czechoslovakia",
"Hungary", "Moldova", "Poland", "Romania", "Russia",
"Slovakia", "Soviet Union", "Transnistria", "Ukraine"
],
"Northern Europe": [
"Åland Islands", "Alderney", "Denmark", "England", "Estonia",
"Faroe Islands", "Finland", "Guernsey", "Herm", "Iceland",
"Ireland", "Isle of Man", "Jersey", "Latvia", "Lithuania",
"Northern Ireland", "Norway", "Sark", "Scotland", "Svalbard and Jan Mayen",
"Sweden", "United Kingdom", "Wales"
],
"Southern Europe": [
"Albania", "Andorra", "Bosnia and Herzegovina", "Croatia", "Gibraltar",
"Greece", "Italy", "Kosovo", "Malta", "Macedonia",
"Montenegro", "Portugal", "San Marino", "Serbia", "Serbia and Montenegro",
"Slovenia", "Spain", "Vatican City", "Yugoslavia"
],
"Western Europe": [
"Austria", "Belgium", "East Germany", "European Union", "France",
"Germany", "Liechtenstein", "Luxembourg", "Metropolitan France", "Monaco",
"Netherlands", "Switzerland", "West Germany"
]
},
"North America": {
"Northern America": [
"Bermuda", "Canada", "Greenland", "Saint Pierre and Miquelon", "United States"
]
},
"Oceania": {
"Australia and New Zealand": [
"Ashmore and Cartier Islands", "Australia", "New Zealand", "Coral Sea Islands", "Norfolk Island"
],
"Melanesia": [
"Fiji", "New Caledonia", "New Hebrides", "Papua New Guinea", "Solomon Islands",
"Vanuatu"
],
"Micronesia": [
// Gilbert and Ellice Islands split into Kiribati (Micronesia) and Tuvalu (Polynesia)
// Wake Island is the only U.S. island not in Polynesia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronesia)
"Canton and Enderbury Islands", "Gilbert and Ellice Islands", "Guam", "Kiribati", "Marshall Islands",
"Micronesia", "Nauru", "Northern Mariana Islands", "Pacific Islands", "Palau", "Wake Island"
],
"Polynesia": [
"American Samoa", "Cook Islands", "French Polynesia", "Johnston Island", "Midway Islands",
"Niue", "Pitcairn Islands", "Samoa", "Tokelau", "Tonga", "Tuvalu",
"United States Minor Outlying Islands", "United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands", "Wallis and Futuna"
]
},
"South America": {
"Central America": [
"Belize", "Clipperton Island", "Costa Rica", "El Salvador", "Guatemala",
"Honduras", "Mexico", "Nicaragua", "Panama", "Panama Canal Zone"
],
"Caribbean": [
"Anguilla", "Antigua and Barbuda", "Aruba", "Bahamas", "Barbados",
"Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba", "British Virgin Islands", "Cayman Islands", "Cuba", "Curaçao",
"Dominica", "Dominican Republic", "Grenada", "Guadeloupe", "Haiti",
"Jamaica", "Martinique", "Montserrat", "Netherlands Antilles", "Puerto Rico",
"Saint Barthélemy", "Saint Kitts and Nevis", "Saint Lucia", "Saint Martin", "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines",
"Sint Maarten", "Trinidad and Tobago", "Turks and Caicos Islands", "United States Virgin Islands"
],
"Southern America": [
"Argentina", "Bolivia", "Brazil", "Chile", "Colombia",
"Ecuador", "Falkland Islands", "French Guiana", "Guyana", "Paraguay",
"Peru", "Suriname", "Uruguay", "Venezuela"
]
}
},
"created": {
"United Arab Emirates": {"date": "1971-12-02"},
"Anguilla": {},
"Slovenia": {"country": "Yugoslavia", "date": "1991-06-25"},
"Macedonia": {"country": "Yugoslavia", "date": "1991-09-08"},
"Croatia": {"country": "Yugoslavia", "date": "1991-10-08"},
"Bosnia and Herzegovina": {"country": "Yugoslavia", "date": "1992-03-01"},
"Kosovo": {"country": "Serbia", "date": "2008-02-17"},
"South Sudan": {"country": "Sudan", "date": "2011-07-09"}
},
"dependencies": {
"Argentina": ["Argentine Antarctica"],
"Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, United Kingdom": ["Antarctica"],
"Australia": [
"Ashmore and Cartier Islands", "Australian Antarctic Territory", "Christmas Island", "Cocos Islands", "Coral Sea Islands",
"Heard Island and McDonald Islands", "Norfolk Island"
],
"Chile": ["Chilean Antarctic Territory"],
"China": ["Hong Kong", "Macau"],
"Denmark": ["Faroe Islands", "Greenland"],
"Finland": ["Åland"],
"France": [
"Adélie Land", "Clipperton Island", "French Afar and Issas", "French Guiana", "French Polynesia",
"French Southern and Antarctic Lands", "French Southern Lands", "Guadeloupe", "Martinique", "Mayotte",
"New Caledonia", "Réunion", "Saint Barthélemy", "Saint Martin", "Saint Pierre and Miquelon",
"Wallis and Futuna"
],
"France, United Kingdom": ["New Hebrides"],
"Guernsey": ["Alderney", "Herm", "Sark"],
"India": ["Jammu and Kashmir"],
"Netherlands": [
"Aruba", "Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba", "Curaçao", "Netherlands Antilles", "Sint Maarten"
],
"New Zealand": ["Cook Islands", "Niue", "Ross Dependency", "Tokelau"],
"Norway": ["Bouvet Island", "Peter I Island", "Queen Maud Land", "Svalbard and Jan Mayen"],
"Pakistan": ["Azad Kashmir", "Gilgit-Baltistan"],
"Spain": ["Canary Islands", "Ceuta and Melilla"],
"South Africa": ["Bophuthatswana", "Ciskei", "Transkei", "Venda"],
"Soviet Union": ["Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic"], // fixme: what about ukraine?
"United Kingdom": [
"Akrotiri and Dhekelia", "Anguilla", "Ascension", "Bermuda", "British Antarctic Territory",
"British Indian Ocean Territory", "British Virgin Islands", "Cayman Islands", "Diego Garcia", "England",
"Falkland Islands", "Gibraltar", "Gilbert and Ellice Islands", "Guernsey", "Isle of Man",
"Jersey", "Montserrat", "Northern Ireland", "Pitcairn Islands", "Saint Helena",
"Scotland", "South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands", "Tristan da Cunha", "Turks and Caicos Islands", "Wales"
],
"United Kingdom, United States": ["Canton and Enderbury Islands"],
"United States": [
"American Samoa", "Guam", "Northern Mariana Islands", "Johnston Atoll", "Midway Islands",
"Pacific Islands", "Panama Canal Zone", "Puerto Rico", "United States Minor Outlying Islands", "United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands",
"United States Virgin Islands", "Wake Island"
]
},
"disputes": {
"Azerbaijan": ["Nagorno-Karabakh"],
"Comoros": ["Anjouan"],
"Cyprus": ["Northern Cyprus"],
"Georgia": ["Abkhazia", "South Ossetia"],
"Iraq, Saudi Arabia": ["Neutral Zone"],
"Moldova": ["Transnistria"],
"Nigeria": ["Biafra"],
"Somalia": ["Somaliland"]
},
"dissolved": {
// joined: joined an existing country (or split between existing countries)
// merged: merged into a new country
// renamed: just renamed
// split: split into new countries
"Korea": {"country": "Japan", "date": "1910-08-22", "dissolved": "joined"},
"Siam": {"country": "Thailand", "date": "1939-06-23", "dissolved": "renamed"},
// "Biafra": {"country": "Nigeria", "date": "1970-01-15", "dissolved": "joined"},
// "Trucial States": {"country": [
// "Abu Dhabi", "Ajman", "Dubai", "Fujairah", "Ras al-Khaimah",
// "Sharjah", "Umm al-Quwain"
// ], "date": "1971-12-01", "dissolved": "split"},
// "Abu Dhabi": {"country": "United Arab Emirates", "date": "1971-12-02", "dissolved": "merged"},
// "Ajman": {"country": "United Arab Emirates", "date": "1971-12-02", "dissolved": "merged"},
// "Dubai": {"country": "United Arab Emirates", "date": "1971-12-02", "dissolved": "merged"},
// "Fujairah": {"country": "United Arab Emirates", "date": "1971-12-02", "dissolved": "merged"},
// "Sharjah": {"country": "United Arab Emirates", "date": "1971-12-02", "dissolved": "merged"},
// "Umm al-Quwain": {"country": "United Arab Emirates", "date": "1971-12-02", "dissolved": "merged"},
// "Ras al-Khaimah": {"country": "United Arab Emirates", "date": "1972-02-11", "dissolved": "joined"},
"Sikkim": {"country": "India", "date": "1975-05-16", "dissolved": "joined"},
// "Dutch Guiana": {"country": "Suriname", "date": "1975-11-25", "dissolved": "renamed"},
"Dahomey": {"country": "Benin", "date": "1975-11-30", "dissolved": "renamed"},
"North Vietnam": {"country": "Vietnam", "date": "1976-07-02", "dissolved": "merged"},
"South Vietnam": {"country": "Vietnam", "date": "1976-07-02", "dissolved": "merged"},
"French Afar and Issas": {"country": "Djibouti", "date": "1977-06-27", "dissolved": "renamed"},
"French Southern and Antarctic Territories": {"country": [
"Adélie Land', 'French Southern Territories"
], "date": "1979", "dissolved": "split"},
"Canton and Enderbury Islands": {"country": "Kiribati", "date": "1979-07-12", "dissolved": "merged"},
"Gilbert and Ellice Islands": {"country": [
"Kiribati", "Tuvalu"
], "date": "1979-07-12", "dissolved": "split"},
"Panama Canal Zone": {"country": "Panama", "date": "1979-10-01", "dissolved": "joined"},
"Rhodesia": {"country": "Zimbabwe", "date": "1980-04-18", "dissolved": "renamed"},
"New Hebrides": {"country": "Vanuatu", "date": "1980-07-30", "dissolved": "renamed"},
"Upper Volta": {"country": "Burkina Faso", "date": "1984-08-04", "dissolved": "renamed"},
"Johnston Island": {"country": "United States Minor Outlying Islands", "date": "1986", "dissolved": "merged"},
"Midway Islands": {"country": "United States Minor Outlying Islands", "date": "1986", "dissolved": "merged"},
"United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands": {"country": "United States Minor Outlying Islands", "date": "1986", "dissolved": "merged"},
"Wake Island": {"country": "United States Minor Outlying Islands", "date": "1986", "dissolved": "merged"},
"Pacific Islands": {"country": [
"Marshall Islands", "Micronesia", "Northern Mariana Islands", "Palau"
], "date": "1986", "dissolved": "split"},
"Burma": {"country": "Myanmar", "date": "1989", "dissolved": "renamed"},
"North Yemen": {"country": "Yemen", "date": "1990-05-22", "dissolved": "merged"},
"South Yemen": {"country": "Yemen", "date": "1990-05-22", "dissolved": "merged"},
"East Germany": {"country": "Germany", "date": "1990-10-03", "dissolved": "merged"},
"West Germany": {"country": "Germany", "date": "1990-10-03", "dissolved": "merged"},
"Neutral Zone": {"country": [
"Iraq", "Saudi Arabia"
], "date": "1991", "dissolved": "joined"},
// The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, like the Ukrainian SSR,
// had its own ISO 3361-1 code, being a member of the United Nations
"Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic": {"country": "Belarus", "date": "1991-08-25", "dissolved": "renamed"},
"Soviet Union": {"country": [
"Armenia", "Azerbaijan", "Belarus", "Estonia", "Georgia",
"Kazakhstan", "Kyrgyzstan", "Latvia", "Lithuania", "Moldova",
"Russia", "Tajikistan", "Turkmenistan", "Ukraine", "Uzbekistan"
], "date": "1991-12-21", "dissolved": "split"},
"Czechoslovakia": {"country": [
"Czech Republic", "Slovakia"
], "date": "1993-01-01", "dissolved": "split"},
// "Bophuthatswana": {"country": "South Africa", "date": "1994-04-27", "dissolved": "joined"},
// "Ciskei": {"country": "South Africa", "date": "1994-04-27", "dissolved": "joined"},
// "Transkei": {"country": "South Africa", "date": "1994-04-27", "dissolved": "joined"},
// "Venda": {"country": "South Africa", "date": "1994-04-27", "dissolved": "joined"},
"Metropolitan France": {"country": "France", "date": "1997", "dissolved": "merged"},
"Zaire": {"country": "Democratic Republic of the Congo", "date": "1997-05-17", "dissolved": "renamed"},
"East Timor": {"country": "Timor-Leste", "date": "2002-05-20", "dissolved": "renamed"},
"Yugoslavia": {"country": "Serbia and Montenegro", "date": "2003-02-04", "dissolved": "renamed"},
"Serbia and Montenegro": {"country": [
"Serbia", "Montenegro"
], "date": "2006-06-05", "dissolved": "split"},
"Netherlands Antilles": {"country": [
"Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba", "Curaçao", "Sint Maarten"
], "date": "2010-10-10", "dissolved": "split"}
},
"flag": {
// no flag
"Antarctica": "Flag of the Antarctic Treaty",
"Ashmore and Cartier Islands": "Flag of Australia",
"Canton and Enderbury Islands": "Flag of Gilbert and Ellice Islands",
"Chilean Antarctic Territory": "Flag of Magallanes, Chile",
"Coral Sea Islands": "Flag of Australia",
"Diego Garcia": "Flag of the British Indian Ocean Territory",
"Gilgit-Baltistan": "Flag of Gilgit-Baltistan United Movement",
"Heard Island and McDonald Islands": "Flag of Australia",
"Neutral Zone": "Flag of the United Nations",
"New Hebrides": "Flag of Anglo-French Joint Naval Commission",
"Northern Ireland": "Ulster banner",
"Svalbard and Jan Mayen": "Flag of Norway",
// France
"Mayotte": "Flag of Mayotte (local)",
"New Caledonia": "Flag of New Caledonia",
"Réunion": "Proposed flag of Réunion (ARF)",
"Saint Martin": "Flag of Saint-Martin (local)",
"Wallis and Futuna": "Flag of Wallis and Futuna",
// Netherlands
"Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba": "Flag of Bonaire",
// UK
"Ascension": "Ascension Island flag proposal B.png",
// US
"United States Minor Outlying Islands": "Flag of the United States (Pantone)",
"United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands": "Flag of the United States (Pantone)",
// renamed
"Burma": "Flag of Myanmar (1974-2010)",
"Siam": "State Flag of Thailand (1916)",
// regexp fails
"Panama Canal Zone": "Panama Canal Zone Flag.png"
},
"flag_link": [
// these are dependencies that share their flag with another dependency
// and need to get a symlink to the other flag
"Adélie Land",
"Canton and Enderbury Islands",
"Diego Garcia",
"French Southern and Antarctic Territories"
],
"geocode": {
// construction of countries unknown to the google maps geocoder
"Akrotiri and Dhekelia": ["Akrotiri, Cyprus", "Dhekelia, Cyprus"],
"Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba": ["Bonaire", "Saba, Netherlands Antilles", "Saint Eustatius"],
"Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic": ["Belarus"],
"Canton and Enderbury Islands": ["Canton Island", "Enderbury Island"],
"Ceuta and Melilla": ["Ceuta", "Melilla"],
"Curaçao": ["Banda Abou, Curaçao"],
"Czechoslovakia": ["Czech Republic", "Slovakia"],
"East Germany": [
"Mecklenburg Vorpommern", "Saxony", "Thuringia"
],
"Dahomey": ["Benin"],
"European Union": ["Europe"],
"French Afar and Issas": ["Djibouti"],
// see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Southern_and_Antarctic_Lands
// and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattered_Islands_in_the_Indian_Ocean
"French Southern and Antarctic Territories": ["Adélie Land", "Bassas da India", "Glorioso Islands", "Île Kerguelen"],
"French Southern Territories": ["Bassas da India", "Glorioso Islands", "Île Kerguelen"],
"Georgia": ["Georgia, Asia"],
// see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Islands
"Gilbert and Ellice Islands": ["Arorae, Kiribati", "Butaritari, Kiribati", "Makin, Kiribati", "Tuvalu"],
"Jamaica": ["Clarendon Parish, Jamaica", "St. James Parish, Jamaica", "St. Thomas Parish, Jamaica", "Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica"], // in case results are us-biased
"Jammu and Kashmir": ["Jammu and Kashmir, India"],
"Johnston Island": ["Johnston Atoll"],
"Korea": ["North Korea", "South Korea"],
"Lebanon": ["Lebanon, Asia"], // in case results are us-biased
"Metropolitan France": ["France"],
"Neutral Zone": ["39944, Saudi Arabia", "76611, Saudi Arabia"],
"New Hebrides": ["Vanuatu"],
"North Vietnam": ["Ha Giang Province, Vietnam", "Lai Chau Province, Vietnam", "Thua Thien-Hue Province, Vietnam"],
"North Yemen": ["Al Jawf, Yemen", "Hajjah, Yemen", "Ta'izz, Yemen"],
"Northern Cyprus": ["Karpass, Cyprus", "Kokkina, Cyprus", "Lympia, Cyprus"],
"Pacific Islands": ["Marshall Islands", "Micronesia", "Northern Mariana Islands", "Palau"],
// "Palestine": ["71, Israel", "El-arish Rafah, Egypt"],
"Panama Canal Zone": ["Amador, Panama", "Fort Sherman, Panama"],
"Sahrawi": ["Western Sahara"],
"Saint Helena": ["Ascension Island", "Longwood, Saint Helena", "Tristan da Cunha"], // in case results are us-biased
"San Marino": ["San Marino, Europe"], // in case results are us-biased
"Serbia and Montenegro": ["Montenegro", "Serbia"],
"Siam": ["Thailand"],
"Sint Maarten": ["Sint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles"],
"South Ossetia": ["Shida Kartli"],
// see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan#States_and_regions
// "South Sudan": [
// "Central Equatoria, Sudan", "Eastern Equatoria, Sudan", "Jonglei, Sudan", "Lakes, Sudan", "Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Sudan",
// "Upper Nile, Sudan", "Unity, Sudan", "Warrap, Sudan", "Western Bahr el Ghazal, Sudan", "Western Equatoria, Sudan"
// ],
"South Vietnam": ["Ca Mau Province, Vietnam", "Da Nang Province, Vietnam", "Kiên Giang Province, Vietnam"],
"South Yemen": ["Al-Mahrah, Yemen", "Lahij, Yemen"],
"Soviet Union": [
"Armenia", "Azerbaijan", "Belarus", "Estonia", "Georgia, Europe",
"Latvia", "Lithuania", "Kazakhstan", "Kyrgyzstan", "Moldova",
"Russia", "Tajikistan", "Turkmenistan", "Ukraine", "Uzbekistan"
],
"United Kingdom": ["England", "Northern Ireland", "Scotland", "Wales, United Kingdom"],
"United States Minor Outlying Islands": [
"Baker Island, UM", "Howland Island", "Jarvis Island", "Johnston Atoll", "Kingman Reef",
"Midway Islands", "Palmyra Atoll", "Wake Island"
],
// see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Miscellaneous_Pacific_Islands
"United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands": [
"Baker Island, UM", "Howland Island", "Jarvis Island", "Kingman Reef", "Palmyra Atoll"
],
"UK": ["England", "Northern Ireland", "Scotland", "Wales, United Kingdom"],
"Upper Volta": ["Burkina Faso"],
"Wake Island": ["Wake Atoll"],
"Wales": ["Wales, United Kingdom"],
"West Germany": ["Schleswig Holstein", "Northrhine Westphalia", "Bavaria, Germany"],
"Yugoslavia": [
"Bosnia and Herzegovina", "Croatia", "Serbia", "Slovenia", "Macedonia",
"Montenegro"
]
},
"google": {
// this is what the google maps geocoder returns
"Bahamas": "The Bahamas",
"Brunei": "Brunei Darussalam",
"Cocos Islands": "Cocos (Keeling) Islands",
"Gambia": "The Gambia",
"Kosovo": "Kosova (Kosovo)",
"Macedonia": "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia",
"Myanmar": "Burma",
"Palestine": "Palestinian Territories",
"Republic of the Congo": "Congo",
"Sahrawi": "Western Sahara",
"United Kingdom": "UK",
"United States": "USA"
},
"imdb": {
// Some IMDb entries have different country names
"Brunei": "Brunei Darussalam",
"Cocos Islands": "Cocos (Keeling) Islands",
"Côte d'Ivoire": "Ivory Coast",
"Democratic Republic of the Congo": "Democratic Republic of Congo",
"Macau": "Macao",
"Macedonia": "Republic of Macedonia",
"Micronesia": "Federated States of Micronesia",
"Palestine": "Occupied Palestinian Territory",
"Pitcairn Islands": "Pitcairn",
"Republic of the Congo": "Congo",
"Sahrawi": "Western Sahara",
"Saint Martin": "Saint Martin (French part)",
"São Tomé and Príncipe": "Sao Tome and Principe",
// IMDb treats Socialist Yugoslavia (split in 1991) and Post-Socialist
// Yugoslavia (renamed to Serbia and Montenegro in 2003) as different
// countries, the latter named Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. While
// this is technichally Yugoslavia, the flag for Serbia and Montenegro
// is correct in this case.
"Serbia and Montenegro": "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia",
"United States Virgin Islands": "U.S. Virgin Islands",
"Vatican City": "Holy See (Vatican City State)"
},
"languages": {
"Abkhazian": "Abkhazia",
"Aboriginal": "Australia",
"Aché": "",
"Acholi": "",
"Afrikaans": "South Africa",
"Aidoukrou": "",
"Akan": "",
"Albanian": "Albania",
"Algonquin": "",
"American": "United States",
"Amharic": "Ethiopia",
"Apache": "",
"Arabic": "Saudi Arabia",
"Aragonese": "",
"Aramaic": "Syria",
"Arapaho": "",
"Armenian": "Armenia",
"Assamese": "India",
"Assyrian Neo-Aramaic": "",
"Athapascan": "",
"Australian": "Australia",
"Awadhi": "",
"Aymara": "Bolivia",
"Azerbaijani": "Azerbaijan",
"Bable": "",
"Baka": "",
"Balinese": "Indonesia",
"Bambara": "Mali",
"Basque": "Spain",
"Bassari": "",
"Belarusian": "Belarus",
"Bemba": "",
"Bengali": "Bangladesh",
"Berber": "Morocco", // ?, one of multiple
"Bhojpuri": "",
"Bicolano": "Philippines",
"Bodo": "",
"Bosnian": "Bosnia and Herzegovina",
"Brazilian": "Brazil",
"Breton": "France",
"British": "United Kingdom",
"Bulgarian": "Bulgaria",
"Burmese": "Burma",
"Cantonese": "China",
"Catalan": "Spain",
"Central Khmer": "Cambodia",
"Chaozhou": "China",
"Chechen": "Russia",
"Cherokee": "United States",
"Cheyenne": "United States",
"Chhattisgarhi": "India",
"Chinese": "China",
"Cornish": "United Kingdom",
"Corsican": "France",
"Cree": "Canada",
"Creek": "United States",
"Creole": "",
"Creoles and pidgins": "",
"Croatian": "Croatia",
"Crow": "",
"Czech": "Czech Republic",
"Danish": "Denmark",
"Dari": "Afghanistan",
"Desiya": "",
"Dinka": "",
"Djerma": "Niger",
"Dogri": "",
"Dutch": "Netherlands",
"Dyula": "",
"Dzongkha": "",
"East-Greenlandic": "Greenland",
"Eastern Frisian": "Germany",
"Egyptian (Ancient)": "Egypt",
"English": "United Kingdom",
"Esperanto": "",
"Estonian": "Estonia",
"Ewe": "",
"Faliasch": "",
"Faroese": "Faroe Islands",
"Filipino": "Philippines",
"Finnish": "Finland",
"Flemish": "Belgium",
"Fon": "",
"French": "France",
"Fulah": "",
"Fur": "",
"Gaelic": "Ireland",
"Galician": "Spain",
"Georgian": "Georgia",
"German": "Germany",
"Grebo": "",
"Greek": "Greece",
"Greek, Ancient (to 1453)": "Greece",
"Greenlandic": "Greenland",
"Guarani": "Paraguay",
"Gujarati": "India",
"Gumatj": "",
"Gunwinggu": "Australia",
"Haitian": "Haiti",
"Hakka": "China",
"Haryanvi": "",
"Hassanya": "Mauritania",
"Hausa": "Nigeria",
"Hawaiian": "United States",
"Hebrew": "Israel",
"Hindi": "India",
"Hmong": "",
"Hokkien": "China",
"Hopi": "United States",
"Hungarian": "Hungary",
"Iban": "",
"Ibo": "Nigeria",
"Icelandic": "Iceland",
"Indian": "India",
"Indonesian": "Indonesia",
"Inuktitut": "",
"Inupiaq": "",
"Irish Gaelic": "Ireland",
"Italian": "Italy",
"Japanese": "Japan",
"Jola-Fonyi": "",
"Ju'hoan": "",
"Kaado": "",
"Kabuverdianu": "Cape Verde",
"Kabyle": "",
"Kalmyk-Oirat": "",
"Kannada": "India",
"Karajá": "",
"Karbi": "",
"Karen": "",
"Kazakh": "Kazakhstan",
"Khanty": "Russia",
"Khasi": "",
"Kikuyu": "",
"Kinyarwanda": "",
"Kirundi": "",
"Klingon": "",
"Kodava": "",
"Konkani": "India",
"Korean": "South Korea",
"Korowai": "Papua New Guinea",
"Kriolu": "Cape Verde",
"Kru": "",
"Kudmali": "",
"Kuna": "",
"Kurdish": "Turkey", // ?, one of multiple
"Kwakiutl": "",
"Kyrgyz": "Kyrgyzstan",
"Ladakhi": "India",
"Ladino": "",
"Lao": "Laos",
"Latin": "Italy",
"Latvian": "Latvia",
"Limbu": "",
"Lingala": "Democratic Republic of the Congo",
"Lithuanian": "Lithuania",
"Low German": "Germany",
"Luxembourgish": "Luxemburg",
"Macedonian": "Macedonia",
"Macro-Jê": "",
"Magahi": "",
"Maithili": "",
"Malagasy": "Madagascar",
"Malay": "Malaysia",
"Malayalam": "India",
"Malecite-Passamaquoddy": "",
"Malinka": "Guinea",
"Maltese": "Malta",
"Manchu": "",
"Mandarin": "China",
"Mandingo": "",
"Manipuri": "",
"Maori": "New Zealand",
"Mapudungun": "Chile",
"Marathi": "India",
"Marshallese": "Marshall Islands",
"Masai": "",
"Masalit": "",
"Maya": "Mexico",
"Mende": "Sierra Leone",
"Micmac": "",
"Middle English": "England",
"Min Nan": "",
"Minangkabau": "",
"Mirandese": "",
"Mizo": "",
"Mohawk": "",
"Mongolian": "Mongolia",
"Montagnais": "",
"More": "Burkina Faso",
"Morisyen": "",
"Nagpuri": "India",
"Nahuatl": "",
"Nama": "",
"Navajo": "United States",
"Naxi": "China",
"Ndebele": "",
"Neapolitan": "Italy",
"Nenets": "",
"Nepali": "Nepal",
"Nisga'a": "Canada",
"None": "",
"Norse, Old": "",
"North American Indian": "",
"Norwegian": "Norway",
"Nushi": "",
"Nyaneka": "",
"Nyanja": "Malawi",
"Occitan": "",
"Ojibwa": "",
"Ojihimba": "",
"Old English": "England",
"Oriya": "",
"Papiamento": "",
"Parsee": "Iran",
"Pashtu": "Afghanistan",
"Pawnee": "",
"Persian": "Iran",
"Peul": "",
"Polish": "Poland",
"Polynesian": "",
"Portuguese": "Portugal",
"Pular": "",
"Punjabi": "India",
"Purepecha": "",
"Quechua": "Peru",
"Quenya": "",
"Rajasthani": "India",
"Rawan": "",
"Romanian": "Romania",
"Romansh": "Switzerland",
"Romany": "Romania",
"Rotuman": "",
"Russian": "Russia",
"Ryukyuan": "Japan",
"Saami": "Finland",
"Samoan": "Samoa",
"Sanskrit": "",
"Sardinian": "Italy",
"Scanian": "",
"Serbian": "Serbia",
"Serbo-Croatian": "Yugoslavia",
"Serer": "",
"Shanghainese": "China",
"Shanxi": "China",
"Shona": "Zimbabwe",
"Shoshoni": "United States",
"Sicilian": "Italy",
"Sindarin": "",
"Sindhi": "Pakistan",
"Sinhala": "Sri Lanka",
"Sioux": "United States",
"Slovak": "Slovakia",
"Slovenian": "Slovenia",
"Somali": "Somalia",
"Songhay": "",
"Soninke": "",
"Sorbian": "Germany",
"Sotho": "Lesotho",
"Sousson": "",
"Spanish": "Spain",
"Sranan": "",
"Swahili": "Kenya", // ?, one of multiple
"Swedish": "Sweden",
"Swiss German": "Switzerland",
"Sylheti": "",
"Tagalog": "Philippines",
"Tajik": "Tajikistan",
"Tamashek": "Algeria", // ?, one of multiple
"Tamil": "Sri Lanka",
"Tarahumara": "",
"Tatar": "Russia",
"Telugu": "India",
"Teochew": "",
"Thai": "Thailand",
"Tibetan": "China",
"Tigrigna": "",
"Tlingit": "",
"Tok Pisin": "",
"Tonga (Tonga Islands)": "Tonga",
"Tsonga": "",
"Tswa": "",
"Tswana": "",
"Tulu": "",
"Tupi": "",
"Turkish": "Turkey",
"Turkmen": "Turkmenistan",
"Tuvinian": "",
"Tzotzil": "",
"Ukrainian": "Ukraine",
"Ungwatsi": "",
"Urdu": "Pakistan",
"Uzbek": "Uzbekistan",
"Vietnamese": "Vietnam",
"Visayan": "",
"Washoe": "",
"Welsh": "Wales",
"Wolof": "Senegal", // ?, one of multiple
"Xhosa": "South Africa",
"Yakut": "",
"Yapese": "",
"Yiddish": "Israel",
"Yoruba": "Nigeria",
"Zulu": "South Africa"
},
"location": {
// locations of countries unknown to the google maps geocoder
// see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_claims_in_Antarctica
// minimum latitude on a mercator projection:
// -math.degrees(math.atan(math.sinh(math.pi)))
"Adélie Land": {
"south": -85.0511287798,
"west": 136.0333333333,
"north": -60,
"east": 142.1833333333
},
"Antarctica": {
"south": -85.0511287798,
"west": -179.9999999999,
"north": -60,
"east": 179.9999999999
},
"Argentine Antarctica": {
"south": -85.0511287798,
"west": -74,
"north": -60,
"east": -25
},
"Australian Antarctic Territory": {
"south": -85.0511287798,
"west": 44.6333333333,
"north": -60,
"east": 160
},
"British Antarctic Territory": {
"south": -85.0511287798,
"west": -80,
"north": -60,
"east": -20
},
"Chilean Antarctic Territory": {
"south": -85.0511287798,
"west": -90,
"north": -60,
"east": -53
},
"Queen Maud Land": {
"south": -85.0511287798,
"west": 20,
"north": -60,
"east": 44.6333333333
},
"Ross Dependency": {
"south": -85.0511287798,
"west": 160,
"north": -60,
"east": -150
}
},
"name": {
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
"Ceuta": "Ceuta and Melilla",
"Palestinian territories": "Palestine",
// The long name "Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha" is correct,
// but Ascension and Tristan da Cunha have their own ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.
"Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha": "Saint Helena",
"Western Sahara": "Sahrawi",
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states
"Kingdom of the Netherlands": "Netherlands",
"Saint-Barthélemy": "Saint Barthélemy",
"Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic": "Sahrawi",
"State of Palestine": "Palestine",
// normalize according to ISO 3361
"Ascension Island": "Ascension",
"Caribbean Netherlands": "Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba",
"French Southern and Antarctic Lands": "French Southern and Antarctic Territories",
"French Southern Lands": "French Southern Territories",
"French Territory of the Afars and the Issas": "French Afar and Issas",
"Johnston Atoll": "Johnston Island",
"Midway Atoll": "Midway Islands",
"Saudi-Iraqi neutral zone": "Neutral Zone",
// shorten
"Cocos (Keeling) Islands": "Cocos Islands",
"Collectivity of Saint Martin": "Saint Martin",
"Coral Sea Islands Territory": "Coral Sea Islands",
"Federated States of Micronesia": "Micronesia",
"Georgia (country)": "Georgia",
"Korean Empire": "Korea",
"Nagorno-Karabakh Republic": "Nagorno-Karabakh",
"People's Republic of China": "China",
"Republic of China": "Taiwan",
"Republic of Dahomey": "Dahomey",
"Republic of Ireland": "Ireland",
"Republic of Kosovo": "Kosovo",
"Republic of Macedonia": "Macedonia",
"Republic of Upper Volta": "Upper Volta",
"The Bahamas": "Bahamas",
"The Gambia": "Gambia",
"Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands": "Pacific Islands",
"Yemen Arab Republic": "North Yemen"
},
"wikipedia": [
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:GB
"England",
"Scotland",
"Northern Ireland",
"Wales",
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states
"Jammu and Kashmir",
"Peter I Island",
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_the_1970s
"South Vietnam",
"Yemen Arab Republic",
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_claims_in_Antarctica
"Adélie Land",
"Argentine Antarctica",
"Chilean Antarctic Territory",
// http://www.imdb.com/country/
"Korean Empire",
"Siam",
"West Germany"
],
"wikipedia_url": {
// Wrong in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 (which we parse
// before the list of sovereign states in order to get the country codes).
// There is only one Wikipedia page for East Timor (TPTL) and Timor-Leste (TL)
"East Timor": "Timor-Leste",
// There is only one Wikipedia page for French Southern and Antarctic Lands (FQHH)
// and French Southern Lands (TF) (the same territory without Adélie Land (FRAQ)).
"French Southern and Antarctic Lands": "French Southern Lands",
"Taiwan": "Republic of China",
"Western Sahara": "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic"
}
}