Magento2: How to get country list in custom HTML template

Question

I need to display a country list with dropdown in the custom knockout HTML template. Help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

With reference to this answer.

Magento already provide some inbuilt solution for this.

<?php $countryBlock = $block->getLayout()->createBlock('Magento\Directory\Block\Data');?>

<?= $countryBlock->getCountryHtmlSelect($defValue = null, $name = 'country_id', $id = 'country', $title = 'Country');?>

You can set default $defValue,$name,$id as per as your wise.