Iphone, Obtaining a List of countries in an NSArray

Question

I have a menu that let's a user select a country. Exactly like that in the contacts.app country menu within the address field.

Does anyone know a simple way of getting a list of countries? I have used NSLocale to generate an array of countries but it's only the country codes unfortunately and not the human readable equivalent. I don't want 'GB' I want Great Britain.

Answer 1

Thanks chuck.

If anyone is interested or wanted to find the same solution here is my code for a sorted array of countries.

Objective-C:

NSLocale *locale = [NSLocale currentLocale]; NSArray *countryArray = [NSLocale ISOCountryCodes];  NSMutableArray *sortedCountryArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];  for (NSString *countryCode in countryArray) {      NSString *displayNameString = [locale displayNameForKey:NSLocaleCountryCode value:countryCode];     [sortedCountryArray addObject:displayNameString];  }  [sortedCountryArray sortUsingSelector:@selector(localizedCompare:)]; 

Swift:

let locale = NSLocale.currentLocale() let countryArray = NSLocale.ISOCountryCodes() var unsortedCountryArray:[String] = [] for countryCode in countryArray {     let displayNameString = locale.displayNameForKey(NSLocaleCountryCode, value: countryCode)     if displayNameString != nil {         unsortedCountryArray.append(displayNameString!)     } } let sortedCountryArray = sorted(unsortedCountryArray, <) 

Swift 3

    let locale = NSLocale.current     let unsortedCountries = NSLocale.isoCountryCodes.map { locale.localizedString(forRegionCode: $0)! }     let sortedCountries = unsortedCountries.sorted()