Reference · $0.007

Country Reference

Give it an ISO code, a country name, an official name or a dialling code, and it returns the canonical record. Perfect for agents handling country data typed by people, in any format.

Specification

Route: GET /country/resolve/{input}
Input: ISO-2, ISO-3, a common or official name, or a +dialling code. Falls back to a substring match.
Price: $0.007 per call on the PowaHub listing.

What it returns

iso2, iso3the canonical ISO codes
name, official_nameshort form and full official form
capitalcapital city
region, subregionUN region groupings
calling_codesinternational dialling prefixes

Live response

{
  "status": "success",
  "status_code": 200,
  "errors": [],
  "data": {
    "country": {
      "iso2": "DE",
      "iso3": "DEU",
      "name": "Germany",
      "official_name": "Federal Republic of Germany",
      "capital": "Berlin",
      "region": "Europe",
      "subregion": "Western Europe",
      "calling_codes": ["+49"]
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mledoze/countries/master/countries.json",
    "generated_at": "2026-10-01T04:00:05.910159+00:00",
    "record_count": 250
  }
}

Captured from the live service at each release · 2026-10-14 10:02 UTC

Measured

Records held: 250

Provenance

Upstream: The mledoze/countries open dataset.
Licence: Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0
Refresh: Rebuilt quarterly, 04:00 UTC on 1 January, April, July and October.
Rebuilt: QuarterlyFrom the refresh schedule that actually runs.

Contains information from mledoze/countries, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0

Good to know

Built for normalising and displaying country data, whatever form the input arrives in.
Resolves partial names too, returning the closest match.

Where to buy

Endpoint: api.powahub.ai/CertainData/country-lookup/{input}
Available on: PowaHub.