Getting country name from country code

Question

I have found the answer for this for objective-c but Im having a hard time doing this in swift.

I have used this to get the country code for the current location:

     let countryCode = NSLocale.currentLocale().objectForKey(NSLocaleCountryCode) as! String
    print(countryCode)
// printing for example US

But how do I convert this country code to a country name, like in this example converting "US" to "United States"?

Answer 1

A super clean Swift 3 version would be:

func countryName(countryCode: String) -> String? {
    let current = Locale(identifier: "en_US")
    return current.localizedString(forRegionCode: countryCode)
}

You can change the locale identifier to eg. Locale.current.identifier if you want localized names. The example above is for English only.

Answer 2

Swift 3

   let currentLocale : NSLocale = NSLocale.init(localeIdentifier :  NSLocale.current.identifier)
   let countryName : String? = currentLocale.displayName(forKey: NSLocale.Key.countryCode, value: countryCode)
  print(countryName ?? "Invalid country code")

Note: If you manually entered localIdentifier means iOS 8 not listed all country name (Eg: "en_US")

Answer 3

Working on Swift3

import Foundation

  extension String {
      func sliceFrom(start: String, to: String) -> String? {
           return (range(of: start)?.upperBound).flatMap({ (sInd) -> String? in
                   (range(of: to, range: sInd..<endIndex)?.lowerBound).map { eInd in
                      substring(with: sInd..<eInd)
         } 
     })
    }
   }   

Use in app delegate

        let englishLocale : NSLocale = NSLocale.init(localeIdentifier :  "en_US")

    // get the current locale
    let currentLocale = NSLocale.current

    var theEnglishName : String? = englishLocale.displayName(forKey: NSLocale.Key.identifier, value: currentLocale.identifier)
    if let theEnglishName = theEnglishName
    {
        countryName = theEnglishName.sliceFrom(start: "(", to: ")")
        print("the localized country name is \(countryName)")
    }

Answer 4

Try doing something like this:

// get the localized country name (in my case, it's US English)
let englishLocale = Locale.init(identifier: "en_US")

// get the current locale
let currentLocale = Locale.current

var theEnglishName : String? = englishLocale.displayName(forKey: NSLocaleIdentifier, value: currentLocale.localeIdentifier)
if let theEnglishName = theEnglishName
{
    let countryName = theEnglishName.sliceFrom("(", to: ")")
    print("the localized country name is \(countryName)")
}

with this helper function that I found here:

import Foundation

extension String {
    func sliceFrom(start: String, to: String) -> String? {
        return (rangeOfString(start)?.endIndex).flatMap { sInd in
            (rangeOfString(to, range: sInd..<endIndex)?.startIndex).map { eInd in
                substringWithRange(sInd..<eInd)
            }
        }
    }
}

I figured this out by researching into this related question.

Answer 5

Swift 3

func countryName(from countryCode: String) -> String {
    if let name = (Locale.current as NSLocale).displayName(forKey: .countryCode, value: countryCode) {
        // Country name was found
        return name
    } else {
        // Country name cannot be found
        return countryCode
    }
}

Answer 6

Swift 4

struct CountryCode {
    let country: String?
    let code: String
}

let countries: [CountryCode] = NSLocale.isoCountryCodes.map { 
    let country = (Locale.current as NSLocale).displayName(forKey: .countryCode, value: $0)
    return CountryCode(country: country, code: $0) 
}

countries.map { print($0) }

// Prints 
// CountryCode(country: Optional("Ascension Island"), code: "AC")
// CountryCode(country: Optional("Andorra"), code: "AD")
// CountryCode(country: Optional("United Arab Emirates"), code: "AE")
// CountryCode(country: Optional("Afghanistan"), code: "AF")