country: country
In dnanto/neogeonames: New GeoNames Data Package and Functions in R

This is a data frame of the GeoNames Gazetteer country info data.

country

A data frame with 252 rows and 19 variables:

iso: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
iso3: ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
iso_numeric: ISO 3166-1 numeric
fips: FIPS codes
country: country
capital: capital
area: area in km^2
population: population
continent: continent
tld: top-level domain
currency_code: ISO 4217
currency_name: currency name
phone: calling code
postal_code_format: postal code format
postal_code_regex: postal code regex
languages: ISO 639 + ISO 3166
geonameid: geonameid
neighbours: neighbouring countries
equivalent_fips_code: equivalent fips code

CountryCodes:

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The official ISO country code for the United Kingdom is 'GB'. The code 'UK' is reserved.

A list of dependent countries is available here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pJpyPy-J5JSNhe7F_KxwiCA&hl=en

The countrycode XK temporarily stands for Kosvo: http://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/xk-country-code-for-kosovo/

CS (Serbia and Montenegro) with geonameId = 8505033 no longer exists. AN (the Netherlands Antilles) with geonameId = 8505032 was dissolved on 10 October 2010.

Currencies :

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A number of territories are not included in ISO 4217, because their currencies are not per se an independent currency, but a variant of another currency. These currencies are:

FO : Faroese krona (1:1 pegged to the Danish krone)
GG : Guernsey pound (1:1 pegged to the pound sterling)
JE : Jersey pound (1:1 pegged to the pound sterling)
IM : Isle of Man pound (1:1 pegged to the pound sterling)
TV : Tuvaluan dollar (1:1 pegged to the Australian dollar).
CK : Cook Islands dollar (1:1 pegged to the New Zealand dollar).

The following non-ISO codes are, however, sometimes used: GGP for the Guernsey pound, JEP for the Jersey pound and IMP for the Isle of Man pound (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217)

A list of currency symbols is available here : http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/437.page another list with fractional units is here: http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/1961.page

Languages :

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The column 'languages' lists the languages spoken in a country ordered by the number of speakers. The language code is a 'locale' where any two-letter primary-tag is an ISO-639 language abbreviation and any two-letter initial subtag is an ISO-3166 country code.

Example : es-AR is the Spanish variant spoken in Argentina.

http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/countryInfo.txt

dnanto/neogeonames documentation built on Sept. 21, 2020, 7:42 p.m.