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Questions tagged [countries]

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Of Countries and their Cities

I need a database of Countries and their Cities. Any idea where I can get such a list?
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Retrieve a list of countries from the android OS

I'm looking for a way to populate a spinner with a list of countries with their names. Can I retrieve it from the Android OS? Can someone please provide me an example?
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How to get list of all countries and cities in rails?

Is there a country and city gem where user will be able to select a country and based on selected country he will select a city? I get multiple solution but they all support states not cities gem 'country_select' gem 'countries' gem…
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List of world countries, states and their counties / districts / regions

Please suggest sites for downloading list of world countries, states and their counties / districts / regions. No need for cities.
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Processing of mongolian names

There are several countries (Turkey, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan etc.) where generally men's name can be without middlename and instead of it used words like "oglu, uulu" etc. For example "Michael oglu Bret" which means "Michael son of Bret". I used to…
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Where can I get a list of country names in native languages?

I know that there are lists of country names in various languages available separately, but I would like to have a list of countries where each country is named how the inhabitants of the country call it. I mean the list like: United States of…
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Good source of country names in different languages? (for use in multilingual forms)

I am building a multilingual web application with a possibility to change the interface language on the fly. This implies, among many other things, a country name selector on registration/profile forms should be translated too. So I'm wondering if…
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How to add capital to django-cities-light country model?

I'm using django-cities-light (lighter version of django-cities) with Django 1.8.x. It defines the abstract models of Country, Region/State and City, so that we can extend and add custom fields. For example, we can add timezone to city by writing a…
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How to list all countries and its states/provinces in php?

Is there any quick guide/reference to list all the countries and its states/provinces? Like when I click US, it will list: Alabama, alaska etc
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How to use the Countries gem

I am trying to use the Countries Gem, but had some basic questions on how to incorporate this gem after I've bundle-installed it. Do I need to create a new controller/model to access the countries? How do I create a simple select drop-down to show…
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Swift - Get list of countries

How can I get an array with all countries names in Swift? I've tried to convert the code I had in Objective-C, which was this: if (!pickerCountriesIsShown) { NSMutableArray *countries = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity: [[NSLocale…
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How to manage Countries in database

I know my question see a bit vague, but I feel like managing the countries/addresses is actually something pretty common, so I would like to get some advices on my actual setup. I have a database with a "country" column, previously it was a medium…
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magento - Allow Countries - What does this mean?

ok... so I feel really stupid asking this question.. but just wondering about the Allow Countries drop down in the admin panel.. What exactly does this mean? Does it mean that only certain countries are allowed to purchase from your site? if it does…
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Get States list of states according to selected country

I want to retrieve names of all the states list of a particular country which is selected from a drop down menu. I know how to retrieve the list of all countries via apple code but now i want the list of all the states. Is there any code db or API…
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Google Play : what are the countries in "Rest of the World"?

we have some problems to distribute our app on some islands, we need to enable our app to be available in "Rest of the World". But we need to know exactly where the app will be available for our users. I did not find the list of countries/locations…
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