Definitive country list for e-commerce applications

Question

I am looking for a list of countries for use in the development of an e-commerce app including:

Country Name, Country Code, Language, etc.

While only the country name (and probably the country code) are really necessary, some of the other info may be nice (as long as there isn't too much!). I used to have a good list but I can't find it anymore.

Thanks.

Answer 1

ISO (International Standards Organization) maintains a list of countries here.

Answer 2

Wikipedia, as usual, has a pretty definitive list. It's not in a readily computer-readable form, but it shouldn't take long to massage it, if you can't find anything else:

ISO_3166-1 (country codes)

List of sovereign states (countries and their languages)

Answer 3

Several options for "country code" but ISO is probably best

Language will be difficult because it's often many per country. Take Switzerland where I am: do you support French/German only? Include Italian (many sites don't). And for the handful of Romansch...?

Answer 4

Check ISO 3166-1 for country codes.

There are 3 sets of country codes:

• ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2
• ISO 3166-1 Alpha-3
• ISO 3166-1 Numeric

For the list of all 3 sets, view here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1