A clean, lightweight, and developer-friendly JSON dataset containing a comprehensive list of countries and territories with their standardized country codes.

This repository is designed to be simple, reusable, and framework-agnostic, making it ideal for applications that need country selection, geolocation, internationalization, or global configuration support.

• countries.json – A JSON array of country objects with:
  • name – Official or commonly used country/territory name
  • code – ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code

{
  "name": "India",
  "code": "IN"
}

• ✅ 240+ countries & territories
• ✅ ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes
• ✅ Clean and consistent JSON structure
• ✅ Ready for frontend & backend usage
• ✅ Perfect for dropdowns, filters, and forms
• ✅ Easy to extend and maintain

• 🌍 Country selector dropdowns
• 📦 Address & shipping forms
• 🌐 Internationalization (i18n)
• 📊 Analytics & reporting
• 📱 Mobile and web applications
• 🔌 API integrations
• 🧩 Configuration files

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ameerzain/countries/main/countries.json

fetch('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ameerzain/countries/main/countries.json')
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(data => console.log(data));

import requests

url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ameerzain/countries/main/countries.json"
countries = requests.get(url).json()

print(countries)

<select>
  <option value="IN">India</option>
  <option value="US">United States</option>
  <option value="GB">United Kingdom</option>
</select>

ℹ️ Note:
This dataset is served via GitHub Raw and is suitable for light to medium usage.
For high-traffic production environments, consider caching or self-hosting the file.

[
  {
    "name": "India",
    "code": "IN"
  },
  {
    "name": "United States",
    "code": "US"
  }
]

Contributions are welcome!

• Add missing countries or territories
• Improve naming consistency
• Update deprecated country codes
• Add additional metadata (flags, calling codes, regions)

This project is open-source and available under the MIT License.

Ameer Zain
GitHub: https://github.com/ameerzain

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Happy coding! 🚀