rworldmap (version 1.01)

countrySynonyms: Synonyms of country names for each ISO 3 letter country code to enable conversion.

Description

contains a variable number of synonyms (mostly English language) for each country

Usage

data(countrySynonyms)

source

This was derived and used with permission from the Perl Locale package. Locale::Codes::Country_Codes. Thanks to Sullivan Beck for pulling this together. Data sources are acknowledged here : http://search.cpan.org/~sbeck/Locale-Codes-3.23/lib/Locale/Codes/Country.pod

Details

This is used by joinCountryData2Map() when country names are used as the joinCode. Note that using ISO codes is preferable if they are available.

Examples

data(countrySynonyms)