@apolitical/geography

geography

Geographical definitions used by Apolitical services. Currently provides lookup functions from regions to a list of countries in that region.

Usage

const {
  regions,
  countriesInRegion,
  countryCodesInRegion,
  countryNamesInRegion,
} = require('@apolitical/geography');

OR

import {
  regions,
  countriesInRegion,
  countryCodesInRegion,
  countryNamesInRegion,
} from '@apolitical/geography';


regions() // Get a list of region codes

regionName('afr', 'en-GB') // The name of the afr region in UK English (i.e. Africa)

countryNamesInRegion('afr') // Country names in Africa
countryCodesInRegion('eur') // Country code in Europe
countriesInRegion('na') // Code->name map for North America

For full browser support (including IE 10 & 11), you will need to use babel-polyfill in your application.

Regions

The region codes correspond to:

code	name
afr	Africa
cas	Central Asia
eap	East Asia & Pacific
eur	Europe
lac	Latin America & Caribbean
mena	Middle East & North Africa
na	North America
oc	Oceania
sar	South Asia

These are based on regions defined by the World Bank, except that we include Oceania, North America, and split out Europe and Central Asia.