Get country name from Country code in python?

Question

I have worked with 2 python libraries: phonenumbers, pycountry. I actually could not find a way to give just country code and get its corresponding country name.

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Answer 1

The phonenumbers library is rather under-documented; instead they advice you to look at the original Google project for unittests to learn about functionality.

The PhoneNumberUtilTest unittests seems to cover your specific use-case; mapping the country portion of a phone number to a given region, using the getRegionCodeForCountryCode() function. There is also a getRegionCodeForNumber() function that appears to extract the country code attribute of a parsed number first.

And indeed, there are corresponding phonenumbers.phonenumberutil.region_code_for_country_code() and phonenumbers.phonenumberutil.region_code_for_number() functions to do the same in Python:

import phonenumbers
from phonenumbers.phonenumberutil import (
    region_code_for_country_code,
    region_code_for_number,
)

pn = phonenumbers.parse('+442083661177')
print(region_code_for_country_code(pn.country_code))

Demo:

>>> import phonenumbers
>>> from phonenumbers.phonenumberutil import region_code_for_country_code
>>> from phonenumbers.phonenumberutil import region_code_for_number
>>> pn = phonenumbers.parse('+442083661177')
>>> print(region_code_for_country_code(pn.country_code))
GB
>>> print(region_code_for_number(pn))
GB

The resulting region code is a 2-letter ISO code, so you can use that directly in pycountry:

>>> import pycountry
>>> country = pycountry.countries.get(alpha_2=region_code_for_number(pn))
>>> print(country.name)
United Kingdom

Note that the .country_code attribute is just an integer, so you can use phonenumbers.phonenumberutil.region_code_for_country_code() without a phone number, just a country code:

>>> region_code_for_country_code(1)
'US'
>>> region_code_for_country_code(44)
'GB'

Answer 2

Small addition - you also can get country prefix by string code. E.g.:

from phonenumbers.phonenumberutil import country_code_for_region

print(country_code_for_region('RU'))
print(country_code_for_region('DE'))