Questions tagged [country]
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Is there a way to get a timeZone with (only) a country code (valid ISO-3166 code)?
I'm trying to get a TimeZone for a user.
For this I have a country code which is a valid ISO Country Code. These codes are the upper-case, two-letter codes as defined by ISO-3166. You can find a full list of these codes at a number of sites, such…

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Determine Play Store Country
I'm looking to see if there is any way to tell what country version of the play store a user has on their android phone.
Basically I want to turn off In-App Purchasing for certain countries (for tax collecting reasons). I have tried Locale but…

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How can we get tweets from specific country
I've read a lot about this part and what I found is to write the geocode and search for tweets
for example
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?geocode=37.781157,-122.398720,1mi&count=10
according to what i found in twitter website
Returns…

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Get continent name from country using pycountry
How to convert continent name from country name using pycountry. I have a list of country like this
country = ['India', 'Australia', ....]
And I want to get continent name from it like.
continent = ['Asia', 'Australia', ....]

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Using PhoneNumberUtils.formatNumber() on API 16
I'm trying to format numbers to a default country code, and I know how, but when I do it, an error appears saying this is only for API 21. I am targeting API 16. If I use the old method, I get an error saying the method is deprecated? How can I use…

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How can whatsapp know country code upon first run on iphone
When I first install whatsapp on iphone, when I open it, the first screen already knows my sim cards location and shows the country code.
How does whatsapp know this ? As apple rejects all the apps that use sim card info programmatically.

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NSLocaleCountryCode returns nil
I have a bugreport that states a crash in the following line, where client is an instance of NSMutableDictionary
[client setObject:[[NSLocale currentLocale] objectForKey:NSLocaleCountryCode] forKey:@"country"];
My guess is, that NSLocaleCountryCode…

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Source of data for "official" country/region list
Lately we've started getting issues with outdated countries / regions list being presented to users of our web-application.
We currently have a few DB tables to store localized country names along with their regions (states). However as the…

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How to get ISO Country code in android applications?
I am a new developer on android application. I would like to get the ISO Country code when I pass the mobile number with country code. If I pass the mobile number as 1-319-491-6338, can I get country ISO code as US / USA in android?
I have written…

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How do I view country flags on Windows 10 through HTML?
Is there a work around to make country flag emoji visible on windows 10 through HTML?
9983 will display ⛿
How to…

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Official list of countries for iPhone AppStore and In-App Purchase?
I am looking for an OFFICIAL list of countries where :
1 - users can download free applications using the AppStore?
2 - users can download paid applications using the AppStore?
3 - users can use the In-App Purchase to buy additional features for the…

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Is there any API for getting all countries and passing country get all States/Region and again passing State/Region get all cities in it
I am creating a web page in asp.net where I have to populate all countries in a dropdown. On selecting one country I need to populate all States/Region in that country to another dropdown. finally on selecting the state/region need to populate all…

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Display the full country name rather than country code in WooCommerce?
Trying to use billing_country; ?> to display the WooCommerce user billing country. This for example echo’s as AU if the customer has an Australian billing address. However, I would like to pull the full name in place of the…

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WooCommerce: Set country by default in checkout page
I am using WooCommerce in my Wordpress web site. The customers billing and shipping details are populated by default on checkout page. I want that the country will not be set by default. Instead it will asked to select country even if user is…

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Column type and size for international country subdivisions (states, provinces, territories etc)
I apologize if this is a duplication.
What column standardization would you use for storing international country subdivision data?
For example, if it was just US and Canada I believe all subdivisions have a 2-character abbreviation... which might…

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