You will find in the following links list of countries, cities, and their languages in CSV format, you can import into any database:
Countries:
http://www.ziddu.com/download/1936707/Country.csv.html
Cities:
http://www.ziddu.com/download/1936708/City.csv.html
Languages:
http://www.ziddu.com/download/1936713/Language.csv.html
and the following is the sql script to create these tables in sql server 2005:
USE [World]
GO
/****** Object: Table [dbo].[City] Script Date: 08/16/2008 14:48:58 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[City](
[ID] [int] NOT NULL,
[Name] [nvarchar](35) COLLATE Arabic_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[CountryCode] [nvarchar](3) COLLATE Arabic_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[District] [nvarchar](20) COLLATE Arabic_CI_AS NULL,
[Population] [int] NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
/****** Object: Table [dbo].[Country] Script Date: 08/16/2008 14:48:58 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Country](
[Code] [nvarchar](150) COLLATE Arabic_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[Name] [nvarchar](150) COLLATE Arabic_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[Continent] [nvarchar](150) COLLATE Arabic_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[Region] [nvarchar](150) COLLATE Arabic_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[SurfaceArea] [nvarchar](150) NOT NULL,
[IndepYear] [nvarchar](150) NULL,
[Population] [nvarchar](150) NOT NULL,
[LifeExpectancy] [nvarchar](150) NULL,
[GNP] [nvarchar](150) NULL,
[GNPOld] [nvarchar](150) NULL,
[LocalName] [nvarchar](150) COLLATE Arabic_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[GovernmentForm] [nvarchar](150) COLLATE Arabic_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[HeadOfState] [nvarchar](150) COLLATE Arabic_CI_AS NULL,
[Capital] [nvarchar](150) NULL,
[Code2] [nvarchar](150) COLLATE Arabic_CI_AS NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_Country] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[Code] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
/****** Object: Table [dbo].[Language] Script Date: 08/16/2008 14:48:58 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Language](
[CountryCode] [nvarchar](50) COLLATE Arabic_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[Language] [nvarchar](50) COLLATE Arabic_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[IsOfficial] [bit] NULL,
[Percentage] [nvarchar](50) COLLATE Arabic_CI_AS NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_Language] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[CountryCode] ASC,
[Language] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]




7 comments:
Thanks, some questions though:
How can we keep this data up to date? Care to share your sources?
All characters besides A-Z seems garbled to me. Can you reformat them as Unicode?
All of these date taken from this db: http://downloads.mysql.com/docs/world.sql.zip and i just formatted for SQL server, so i don't know how to make these date updated, and if you can't see some characters just change your DB collation, or open the mysql original one.
Thanks,
you got utf8 issues in those csv's friend
I am looking for javascript of countries & cities dropdown menu, anyone pls help.
You can use these data and put the values inside drop downs.
NICE MAP. I WANT TO USE IT ON MY SITE. WHAT IS THE SOURCE AND IS THERE A COPYRIGHT MATE?
http://sunzhine.deviantart.com/art/WORLD-MAP-47040356
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