Getting country name from country code in WooCommerce

Question

WooCommerce defines countries as follows (edited for brevity):

class WC_Countries {
    public $countries;

    public function __construct() {
        global $woocommerce, $states;

        $this->countries = apply_filters( 'woocommerce_countries', array(
            'AF' => __( 'Afghanistan', 'woocommerce' ),
            'AX' => __( 'Åland Islands', 'woocommerce' ),
            'AL' => __( 'Albania', 'woocommerce' ),
            'DZ' => __( 'Algeria', 'woocommerce' ),
            // […]
        ));
    }
}

When an order is placed, the country code is written to the WordPress wp_postmeta table and can be extracted anywhere an order id can be accessed using the get_post_meta() function:

get_post_meta( $order->id, '_shipping_country', true ),

Since we are simply retrieving two characters from the database, the question is how to translate the shipping country code (e.g. AF) to the country name specified in the WC_Countries class?

Answer 1

You can access the WC_Countries class with WC()->countries. So to get the country name from an order, you must use:

WC()->countries->countries[ $order->shipping_country ];

On WooCommerce 3.0+ you should use:

WC()->countries->countries[ $order->get_shipping_country() ];

If you like to get the state, you need before check if exist, since WooCommerce doesn't include all states, so here what do you need:

$states = WC()->countries->get_states( $order->get_shipping_country() );
$state  = ! empty( $states[ $order->get_shipping_state() ] ) ? $states[ $order->get_shipping_state() ] : '';

Answer 2

To get the state name from state code you can use.

WC()->countries->states[$order->billing_country][$order->billing_state];