Releases: mledoze/countries
Countries v1.5
Breaking changes
remove Ascension Island (merged with Saint Helena, see #57)
Addition
add countries GeoJSON outline (example https://github.com/mledoze/countries/blob/4251a5f95d5255a913a397d831dd75080e370f33/data/deu.geo.json)
add russian translations for all countries (thanks @eugene-lazarev)
add unescaped JSON version
add "How to contribute" section in README
This project is now available as a NPM package: https://www.npmjs.org/package/world-countries
Fixes
fix Libya CCA3 in Algeria's borders
fix russian translations, replace \x20 and \x2d with a space and a hyphen
fix calling code for Vatican City
fix data for Hong Kong
fix language and language codes for Norway (fix #56)
remove BRA-FRA, SUR-FRA, MAF-NED borders for Brazil, Suriname and France
Countries v1.4
Breaking changes
remove population data (see #6 (comment))
rename Côte d'Ivoire to Ivory Coast
Addition
add area data in km²
add countries flag in SVG format (see data folder, source: https://github.com/tinata/tinatapi)
add welsh translations
add Ascension Island
add showcase section in README
add CONTRIBUTING
Fixes
fix missing borders, latitude/longitude and language codes
fix encoding of accented characters in translations
fix native names for countries with right-to-left language
fix/reorder language codes for some countries
fix spanish translation of Chad
fix language for Egypt
fix denonym for United Arab Emirates
fix region and subregion for Cyprus
Countries v1.3
Breaking changes
remove english translations since they are redundant with the name parameter
rename languagesCodes to languageCodes
Build
move generated files to the dist folder
prettify JSON source to ease the contributions
add script to generate other formats (the source is the JSON file)
Additions
add geolocation, population, borders and demonym data
add language codes and translations for multiple countries
add Republic of Kosovo (#27)
add missing population field for some countries (-1 is used if there is no data)
Fixes
fix many type inconsistencies
fix/add translations, mainly french
fix NL translation of Macedonia
fix currency for Colombia and Mexico
fix denonym for Åland Islands
fix null values for latitude/longitude
rename Macao to Macau
convert multiple values to real JSON arrays
Countries v1.2
added license (Open Database License)
added country native name in its native language
added country official language(s) in english
added alt spellings: official country name in english and in its official language(s)
added region and subregion for Bonaire, Sint Maarten and South Sudan
added capital for British Indian Ocean Territory, Micronesia, Réunion, South Georgia, Virgin Islands (British) and Virgin Islands (U.S.)
added currency for Palestinian Territory
added examples in README
change TLD for the UK from .gb to .uk
using camelCase in countries.json
fixed alt spellings for Czech Republic
fixed typo in Canada's and Russia's capital
fixed currency and alt-spelling for Slovakia
fixed currency code for Solomon Islands, Somalia and South Africa
fixed South Georgia currency
fixed relevance for Åland Islands and Finland
fixed ccn3 padding
fixed subregion for Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam
fixed TLD for Bonaire, Heard and McDonald Islands, Kazakhstan and Saint Martin
fixed capital for Moldova
fixed alt-spellings for United Kingdom
rename Brunei Darussalam to Brunei
rename Falkland Islands (Malvinas) to Falkland Islands
rename French Southern Territories to French Southern and Antarctic Lands
rename Myanmar (Burma) to Myanmar (added Burma in alt-spellings)
rename Palestinian Territory to Palestine
rename Pitcairn to Pitcairn Islands
rename Russian Federation to Russia
rename Syrian Arab Republic to Syria
rename Virgin Islands (British) to British Virgin Islands
rename Virgin Islands (U.S.) to United States Virgin Islands
Countries v1.1
Added capital cities
Fixed accented characters encoding in JSON file
Countries v1.0
Because of the nature of this repository, this release is arbitrarily v1.0.
Enjoy!