How to list all countries and its states/provinces in php? [closed]
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Is there any quick guide/reference to list all the countries and its states/provinces?
Like when I click US, it will list: Alabama, alaska etc
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I don't have code to do it, but if you want a good (free) list of administrative districts for most of the world you can use this Wikipedia page.
OTHER TIPS
pycountry is the most complete free reference I was ever able to find:
pycountry provides the ISO databases for the standards:
639 Languages
3166 Countries
3166-2 Subdivisions of countries
4217 Currencies
15924 Scripts
The databases are imported from Debian's pkg-isocodes, packaged into pycountry and made accessible through a Python API.
Translation files for the various strings are included as well.
Grabbing data from Geonames would be an option. It is kept relatively up to date, and is under a CC license.
In case you don't want to use sql, here is just a javascript with region country's province/state, i found it a while ago. Maybe its of good use....
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?350291-Country-State-City-Dropdown-list
As Squeeks says you can use GeoNames.
I did a tool ( https://github.com/yosoyadri/GeoNames-XML-Builder ) that downloads and saves GeoNames response as a XML file based on the library at http://geonamesdotorgdotnet.codeplex.com/.
You can also download a complete file of countries and states/provinces at https://raw.github.com/yosoyadri/GeoNames-XML-Builder/master/continents-countries-statesprovinces.xml
This is as close as it gets. http://27.org/isocountrylist/
This list is rather old, however it does offer a great deal of value for those wanting a country list, with codes and abbreviations. Also, there is a link to US States and provinces there too. This has been a good resource over the years.
With this table data, it's possible for someone to create some normalized data between countries, states, provinces, counties or whatever political jurisdictions.
I thought this would be a huge time saver for this task.
