countrySynonyms
From rworldmap v1.3-6
by Andy South
Synonyms of country names for each ISO 3 letter country code to enable conversion.
contains a variable number of synonyms (mostly English language) for each country
- Keywords
- datasets
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.
Format
A data frame with 281 observations on the following 10 variables.
- ID
- a numeric vector
- ISO3
- ISO 3 letter country code
- name1
- country name - most common
- name2
- country name - alternative
- name3
- country name - alternative
- name4
- country name - alternative
- name5
- country name - alternative
- name6
- country name - alternative
- name7
- country name - alternative
- name8
- country name - alternative
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
Examples
data(countrySynonyms)
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