Source for countries/country codes for the entire world?

Question

Is there any Google API which would return all the countries in the world with the country code?

Answer 1

The Google Maps API family does not have anything like this. There might be other API's that do, but since ISO 3166-1 is fairly static you are probably better off embedding the data rather than retrieving it from an API every time you need it.

You could use Wikipedia's article on ISO 3166-1 as a source for the list of countries and codes.

Answer 2

How about KML Countries at GeoCommons. It has entries such as:

• Cntryname: Australia, Fipscntry: AS
• Cntryname: Egypt, Fipscntry: EG
• Cntryname: France, Fipscntry: FR
• Cntryname: United States, Fipscntry: US