Country codes, capital, population, area and continent of the world

This is a small script for use to download country codes from geonames.org

This script downloads and extracts the country information and saves them in a json file

System requirements

1. Python 3.5+
   • Get it from python official download site
2. Python package manager pip.
   • Get both python and pip for windows as described here

Usage

1. Get your own copy by forking the repository

2. Clone or download your forked copy

git clone https://github.com/your-user-name/countries.git 

3. Change directory to countries $ cd countries

4. Install the virtualenv (if not already installed)

python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv

5. Create an env for dev and activate it

python3 -m venv countries-env

6. Activate your newly created virtual environment

source countries-env/bin/activate

7. Install all project dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

8. Download your data

$ python3 countries.py

That's it! You now have a file called countries.json. Open it in your favourite editor.

Sample data from countries.json

[{
    "alpha2": "AD",
    "alpha3": "AND",
    "area": 468.0,
    "capital": "Andorra la Vella",
    "continent": "EU",
    "id": 20,
    "languages": [
        "Catalan (ca)"
    ],
    "name": "Andorra",
    "neighbours": [
        "ES",
        "FR"
    ],
    "phone": "376",
    "population": 77006
},
{
    "alpha2": "AE",
    "alpha3": "ARE",
    "area": 82880.0,
    "capital": "Abu Dhabi",
    "continent": "AS",
    "id": 784,
    "languages": [
        "Arabic (ar-AE)",
        "Persian (fa)",
        "English (en)",
        "Hindi (hi)",
        "Urdu (ur)"
    ],
    "name": "United Arab Emirates",
    "neighbours": [
        "SA",
        "OM"
    ],
    "phone": "971",
    "population": 9630959
},
///
]

This has been tested on Windows 10 with cygwin installed and used as the terminal.

It works too in Ubuntu 18.04 and Mac OS

If this does not work for your system for any reason, please feel free to create an issue

Contributions guidelines

All forms of contributions/criticism are welcome. It is only when i get critique that i will improve.

Please give it a star if you like it or create and issue out if you dislike it. You can also suggest any cool feature a feature with a pull request.

LICENSE

GNU General Public Licence See LICENSE and as specified in Geonames Terms and Conditions

©March 2019 - 2023 Bernard Che Longho