This is a simple python wrapper for the API of http://restcountries.eu <http://restcountries.eu>. If there are any issues, please use this repository to contact me about it.

pip install python-restcountries

Just import the API Wrapper and start using it!:

# v1 from restcountries import RestCountryApi as rapi
from restcountries import RestCountryApiV2 as rapi

def foo(name):
    country_list = rapi.get_countries_by_name('France')

The API returns Country objects or a list of Country objects. Through the country objects one is able to access following attributes.:

country = country_list[0]
print(country.name)
France

• top_level_domain
• alpha2_code
• alpha3_code
• currencies
• capital
• calling_codes
• alt_spellings
• relevance
• region
• subregion
• translations
• population
• latlng
• demonym
• area
• gini
• timezones
• borders
• native_name
• name
• numeric_code
• languages
• flag
• regional_blocs
• cioc