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)

Documentation reproduced from package rworldmap, version 1.3-6, License: GPL (>= 2)

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