ISO Alpha-2 Country Codes and Names in PHP Array
I sweated out arranging this but I think it’s gonna be useful to someone someday 🙂
array( "AF" => 'Afghanistan', "AX" => 'Ã…land 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, Plurinational State of', "BQ" => 'Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba', "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', "CA" => 'Canada', "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" => 'Côte d\'Ivoire', "HR" => 'Croatia', "CU" => 'Cuba', "CW" => 'Curaçao', "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" => 'Libya', "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', "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" => 'Réunion', "RO" => 'Romania', "RU" => 'Russian Federation', "RW" => 'Rwanda', "BL" => 'Saint Barthélemy', "SH" => 'Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha', "KN" => 'Saint Kitts and Nevis', "LC" => 'Saint Lucia', "MF" => 'Saint Martin (French part)', "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', "SX" => 'Sint Maarten (Dutch part)', "SK" => 'Slovakia', "SI" => 'Slovenia', "SB" => 'Solomon Islands', "SO" => 'Somalia', "ZA" => 'South Africa', "GS" => 'South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands', "SS" => 'South Sudan', "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', "GB" => 'United Kingdom', "US" => 'United States', "UM" => 'United States Minor Outlying Islands', "UY" => 'Uruguay', "UZ" => 'Uzbekistan', "VU" => 'Vanuatu', "VE" => 'Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of', "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' );
This array can by handy if you create a function to get countries an HTML Option element and adding your selected, e.g below:
<?php
function get_country_options( $selected = false ) {
$d = array(
"AF" => 'Afghanistan',
"AX" => 'Ã…land 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, Plurinational State of',
"BQ" => 'Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba',
"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',
"CA" => 'Canada',
"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" => 'Côte d\'Ivoire',
"HR" => 'Croatia',
"CU" => 'Cuba',
"CW" => 'Curaçao',
"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" => 'Libya',
"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',
"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" => 'Réunion',
"RO" => 'Romania',
"RU" => 'Russian Federation',
"RW" => 'Rwanda',
"BL" => 'Saint Barthélemy',
"SH" => 'Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha',
"KN" => 'Saint Kitts and Nevis',
"LC" => 'Saint Lucia',
"MF" => 'Saint Martin (French part)',
"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',
"SX" => 'Sint Maarten (Dutch part)',
"SK" => 'Slovakia',
"SI" => 'Slovenia',
"SB" => 'Solomon Islands',
"SO" => 'Somalia',
"ZA" => 'South Africa',
"GS" => 'South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands',
"SS" => 'South Sudan',
"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',
"GB" => 'United Kingdom',
"US" => 'United States',
"UM" => 'United States Minor Outlying Islands',
"UY" => 'Uruguay',
"UZ" => 'Uzbekistan',
"VU" => 'Vanuatu',
"VE" => 'Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of',
"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'
);
foreach( $d as $code => $country ) {
$r[] = ( $selected == $code || $selected == $country ) ? '<option value="' . $code . '" selected>' . $country . '</option>' : '<option value="' . $code . '">' . $country . '</option>';
}
return $r;
}
echo '<select>
' . implode( '', get_country_options( 'Nigeria' ) ) . '
</select>';
I hope this helps 🙂
James John
Software Engineer
