Comments on: I need a list of all the countries

Question: I need a list of all the countries

billtron — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:55:49 -0800

I'm looking for a randomized list of every nation state in the world, preferably in spreadsheet column form. Is there anything like this?

By: cschneid

cschneid — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:00:40 -0800

Depending on what you call a country, this may do: http://openconcept.ca/blog/mgifford/text_list_all_countries

There's a wikipedia page which looks more official, but less easy to copy/paste into excel.

By: hal_c_on

hal_c_on — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:01:34 -0800

What do u mean "randomized"? This question would make perfect sense to me had that word not been included.

By: doteatop

doteatop — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:06:09 -0800

Here you go: http://doteatop.pastebin.com/m11cc75c2

Randomized from: http://www.un.org/en/members/index.shtml

By: billtron

billtron — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:10:25 -0800

doteatop, that's awesome. What's #113?

By: doteatop

doteatop — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:14:40 -0800

Sorry, a few of those got a bit chopped.

Fixed: http://doteatop.pastebin.com/d32095a92

I did this the fast, evil way:

grep countryname <(HTML_FILE) | awk -F''\''' '{print $12}' | sort -u | while read c ; do echo -e $RANDOM"\t"$c ; done | sort -n | sed -e 's/^[0-9]*//g'

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:13:54 -0800

Croatia is missing in the first link, and a few others, like Vatican City and Kosovo. The US Department of State recognizes 194 countries.

By: dirm

dirm — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:01:10 -0800

Slightly out of date, but more fun than the above: "Countries of the World..."

By: MadamM

MadamM — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:37:15 -0800

Practice this, and you can name them all off yourself :).