Author: OJ Watson
Date: 2018-11-12

# Country Names and Codes

#### OJ Watson

#### 2018-11-12

## Overview

The following shows how to return a table of the country names and 2 letter codes.

We can get this information by querying the API using `dhs_countries`, and specifying the `returnFields` argument to just return the country name and DHS country code. This is a useful reference table when you want to pass in country IDs to a number of the API functions, e.g. `dhs_data(countryIds = "BJ")`

    library(rdhs)

    ## what are the countryIds
    ids <- dhs_countries(returnFields=c("CountryName", "DHS_CountryCode"))
    ids

    ##     DHS_CountryCode                      CountryName
    ##  1:              AF                      Afghanistan
    ##  2:              AL                          Albania
    ##  3:              AO                           Angola
    ##  4:              AM                          Armenia
    ##  5:              AZ                       Azerbaijan
    ##  6:              BD                       Bangladesh
    ##  7:              BJ                            Benin
    ##  8:              BO                          Bolivia
    ##  9:              BT                         Botswana
    ## 10:              BR                           Brazil
    ## 11:              BF                     Burkina Faso
    ## 12:              BU                          Burundi
    ## 13:              KH                         Cambodia
    ## 14:              CM                         Cameroon
    ## 15:              CV                       Cape Verde
    ## 16:              CF         Central African Republic
    ## 17:              TD                             Chad
    ## 18:              CO                         Colombia
    ## 19:              KM                          Comoros
    ## 20:              CG                            Congo
    ## 21:              CD        Congo Democratic Republic
    ## 22:              CI                    Cote d'Ivoire
    ## 23:              DR               Dominican Republic
    ## 24:              EC                          Ecuador
    ## 25:              EG                            Egypt
    ## 26:              ES                      El Salvador
    ## 27:              EK                Equatorial Guinea
    ## 28:              ER                          Eritrea
    ## 29:              ET                         Ethiopia
    ## 30:              GA                            Gabon
    ## 31:              GM                           Gambia
    ## 32:              GH                            Ghana
    ## 33:              GU                        Guatemala
    ## 34:              GN                           Guinea
    ## 35:              GY                           Guyana
    ## 36:              HT                            Haiti
    ## 37:              HN                         Honduras
    ## 38:              IA                            India
    ## 39:              ID                        Indonesia
    ## 40:              JO                           Jordan
    ## 41:              KK                       Kazakhstan
    ## 42:              KE                            Kenya
    ## 43:              KY                  Kyrgyz Republic
    ## 44:              LA Lao People's Democratic Republic
    ## 45:              LS                          Lesotho
    ## 46:              LB                          Liberia
    ## 47:              MD                       Madagascar
    ## 48:              MW                           Malawi
    ## 49:              MV                         Maldives
    ## 50:              ML                             Mali
    ## 51:              MR                       Mauritania
    ## 52:              MX                           Mexico
    ## 53:              MB                          Moldova
    ## 54:              MA                          Morocco
    ## 55:              MZ                       Mozambique
    ## 56:              MM                          Myanmar
    ## 57:              NM                          Namibia
    ## 58:              NP                            Nepal
    ## 59:              NC                        Nicaragua
    ## 60:              NI                            Niger
    ## 61:              NG                          Nigeria
    ## 62:              PK                         Pakistan
    ## 63:              PG                 Papua New Guinea
    ## 64:              PY                         Paraguay
    ## 65:              PE                             Peru
    ## 66:              PH                      Philippines
    ## 67:              RW                           Rwanda
    ## 68:              WS                            Samoa
    ## 69:              ST            Sao Tome and Principe
    ## 70:              SN                          Senegal
    ## 71:              SL                     Sierra Leone
    ## 72:              ZA                     South Africa
    ## 73:              LK                        Sri Lanka
    ## 74:              SD                            Sudan
    ## 75:              SZ                        Swaziland
    ## 76:              TJ                       Tajikistan
    ## 77:              TZ                         Tanzania
    ## 78:              TH                         Thailand
    ## 79:              TL                      Timor-Leste
    ## 80:              TG                             Togo
    ## 81:              TT              Trinidad and Tobago
    ## 82:              TN                          Tunisia
    ## 83:              TR                           Turkey
    ## 84:              TM                     Turkmenistan
    ## 85:              UG                           Uganda
    ## 86:              UA                          Ukraine
    ## 87:              UZ                       Uzbekistan
    ## 88:              VN                          Vietnam
    ## 89:              YE                            Yemen
    ## 90:              ZM                           Zambia
    ## 91:              ZW                         Zimbabwe
    ##     DHS_CountryCode                      CountryName