contains a variable number of synonyms (mostly English language) for each country
A data frame with 281 observations on the following 10 variables.
a numeric vector
ISO 3 letter country code
country name - most common
country name - alternative
country name - alternative
country name - alternative
country name - alternative
country name - alternative
country name - alternative
country name - alternative
This is used by joinCountryData2Map() when country names are used as the joinCode. Note that using ISO codes is preferable if they are available.