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

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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.