PHP intl country code 2 chars to country name

Question

I\'m triying to convert, using PHP, 2 characters country code (ISO 3166-1) to country names, or intl country codes, so I can translate the country name.

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Answer 1

You can get a JSON mapping of ISO2 country code to name at http://country.io/names.json. Here's a simple PHP example that makes use of it:

$names = json_decode(file_get_contents("http://country.io/names.json"), true);
echo $names['US'];
// => United States
echo $names['NL'];
// => Netherlands

See http://country.io/data/ for more related data.