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I am building a weather website, and I want to display the country name for the given location but my API request to openweathermap only returns country code. So is there a way to convert the country code to country name from javascript itself or I need to make one more API call to other url which will convert me the code to name.
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If by currency codes you mean ISO 4217 codes you can get ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code from first 2 characters in code for some countries, and then crosscheck it with country name.
MY is the two-letter country abbreviation for Malaysia.
The ISO country codes are internationally recognized codes that designate every country and most of the dependent areas a two-letter combination or a three-letter combination; it is like an acronym, that stands for a country or a state.
HTML uses 5-character ISO codes according to this pattern: ll-CC. The ll = lower-case language code, and the CC = upper-case country code.
You can use Intl.DisplayNames for this purpose, standard JS api, but not with full browser support yet (needs polyfills for Firefox & Safari as of January 2021).
Usage:
let regionNames = new Intl.DisplayNames(['en'], {type: 'region'});
regionNames.of('US'); // "United States"
Details: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl/DisplayNames
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I think there is nothing like that build into the Javascript standard library, but as always, there is an NPM library for it: https://www.npmjs.com/package/i18n-iso-countries
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