CountryData

Provides a .net wrapper around the GeoNames Data. Also exposes the data as per country json files.

NuGet packages

• https://nuget.org/packages/CountryData/
• https://nuget.org/packages/CountryData.Bogus/

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Usage

// All country info. This is only the country metadata
// and not all locationData.
var allCountryInfo = CountryLoader.CountryInfo;
var costaRicaInfo = allCountryInfo.Single(x => x.Iso == "CR");

// Loads all location data for a specific country
var australiaData = CountryLoader.LoadAustraliaLocationData();
var name = australiaData.Name;
var state = australiaData.States.First();
var province = state.Provinces.First();
var community = province.Communities.First();
var place = community.Places.First();
var postCode = place.PostCode;
var placeName = place.Name;
var latitude = place.Location.Latitude;
var longitude = place.Location.Longitude;

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Bogus Usage

var faker = new Faker<Target>()
    .RuleFor(
        property: u => u.RandomCountryName,
        setter: (f, u) => f.Country().Name())
    //TODO
    //.RuleFor(
    //    property: u => u.RandomCountryCurrency,
    //    setter: (f, u) => f.Country().CurrencyCode())
    .RuleFor(
        property: u => u.AustralianCapital,
        setter: (f, u) => f.Country().Australia().Capital)
    .RuleFor(
        property: u => u.RandomIrelandState,
        setter: (f, u) => f.Country().Ireland().State().Name)
    .RuleFor(
        property: u => u.RandomIcelandPostCode,
        setter: (f, u) => f.Country().Iceland().PostCode());
var targetInstance = faker.Generate();

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Json Files

Country Codes

List of country codes: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SimonCropp/CountryData/master/Data/countrycodes.txt

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SimonCropp/CountryData/master/Data/PostCodes/[CountryCode].json.txt

Country Information

https://github.com/SimonCropp/CountryData/blob/master/Data/countryInfo.json.txt

Country Location Data

For example the url for Australia (AU) is:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SimonCropp/CountryData/master/Data/PostCodes/AU.json.txt

Structure

The GeoNames data is structured as:

Country > State > Province > Community > Place

However many countries do not have data for every level.

Icon

World designed by Pedro Santos from The Noun Project.